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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part III: Projects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?
(a) "A global participant and power."
(b) "A booming economy."
(c) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(d) "A subordinate class."

2. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

3. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

4. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(c) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.

5. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

2. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

3. When did the Second Boer War begin?

4. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

5. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?

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