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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part II: Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Homer.

2. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?
(a) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Lord Salisbury.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

3. 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)?
(a) 1402.
(b) 1195.
(c) 1312.
(d) 1449.

4. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Agave.

5. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Joseph McCarthy.
(d) Andrew Rothstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Bacchae?

2. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

3. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?

4. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

5. When did the Hayter Report appear?

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