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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part IV: Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1649.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1798.

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

3. 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."

4. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Sir William Jones.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.

5. When did William Muir die?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?

2. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?

3. When was William Muir's The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall published?

4. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

5. When did the Second Boer War begin?

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