1. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(c) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

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

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

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

(see the answer key)

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