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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part I: Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?
(a) April 25, 1901.
(b) March 12, 1919.
(c) June 13, 1910.
(d) September 2, 1908.

2. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Baudilaire.
(d) Schwab.

3. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Athena.
(b) Agave.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Cassandra.

4. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

5. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "I am interested in showing how modern Orientalism, unlike precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot, embodies a systematic discipline of" what (123)?
(a) "Accumulation."
(b) "Epistolism."
(c) "Sovereignty."
(d) "Generosity."

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

2. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?

3. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

4. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

5. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?

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