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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?
(a) April, 1901.
(b) January, 1908.
(c) September, 1908.
(d) March, 1919.

2. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Philology.
(c) Linguology.
(d) Epidemiology.

3. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1808.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1823.

4. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1972.

5. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?
(a) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?

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

3. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?

4. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?

5. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

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