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

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

3. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?
(a) "Anthropologists."
(b) "Philanthropists."
(c) "Philological scholars."
(d) "Biblical scholars."

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)?
(a) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."
(b) "A positive doctrine."
(c) "An anthropological endeavor."
(d) "A negative doctrine."

5. 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 booming economy."
(b) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(c) "A global participant and power."
(d) "A subordinate class."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who wrote The Bacchae?

3. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

4. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?

5. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

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