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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. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 760-710 BC.
(b) 898-760 BC.
(c) 559-500 BC.
(d) 900-800 BC.

2. 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.

3. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. 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)?

4. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

5. When did the Second Boer War begin?

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