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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 was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1789.

2. 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 booming economy."
(b) "A global participant and power."
(c) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(d) "A subordinate class."

3. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?
(a) Madame Bovary.
(b) Bouvard et Pecuchet.
(c) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.
(d) The Search for Cultural Identity.

4. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1889.

5. When was the American Oriental Society founded?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1842.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

3. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?

4. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?

5. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

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