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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. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) A new idea.
(b) A revised idea.
(c) An unaccepted idea.
(d) An accepted idea.

2. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Anwar Abdel Malek.

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

4. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Homer.

5. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1823.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

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

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

4. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?

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

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