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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part II: Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philogical Laboratory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Candide?
(a) Homer.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Cervantes.
(d) Rimbau.

2. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?
(a) 1759-1765.
(b) 1698-1702.
(c) 1709-1711.
(d) 1798-1801.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?

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

3. Who wrote The Bacchae?

4. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?

5. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?

(see the answer key)

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