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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part III: Projects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Homer.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Euripides.

2. 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) Joseph McCarthy.
(c) Andrew Rothstein.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

3. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 50,000 pounds.
(b) 100,000 pounds.
(c) 30,000 pounds.
(d) 20,000 pounds.

4. 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) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Henri Baudet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

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. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

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)?

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