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WorksheetsORIENTALISM 101
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 1hrs 4mins
Why did Edward Said write Orientalism?
To expose the behaviors and attitudes of the Western Orientalists
To expose the behaviors and attitudes of the Eastern Orientalists
To pass his PhD degree
To narrate the history of colonialism
What is not a lesson from Orientalism?
Forms of prejudice and stereotypes can become institutionalized, taught and learned.
Western scholars created historical studies as a discipline.
The natives cannot represent themselves
Perceptions can be assumed as official truths even when they are not objectively true
What did the Orientalist do, according to Edward Said?
Wrote the history of oriental natives objectively
Conquer the natives and made them slaves
Exoticise the orientals
Convert them into their religion
How was Islam labelled by the Orientalists?
Mohammedanism
Muslims
Sunnism
Shiism
What is the 'poetics of space' written by Gaston Bachelard?
Science of the concrete in which the mind has to make objects familiar and orderly by terming everything according to its classification.
The meaning of space is interpreted with an imaginative value by the emotional and rational sense of ones' mind.
The poems can be written about places
Orientalizing the orient
What is the title of the book that Edward Said wrote?
Orientalizing the orient
Orientalism
Oriental
Imaginative Geography
Why should we care about Orientalism?
Because Orientalism seeps into the modern culture
Because those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it
Because the current world has been constructed by the colonial past
Because Orientalism teaches us that western values are great examples
What did Orientalists produce in the Orient?
Novels
Historical texts
Poems
Technology
What is imaginative knowledge?
Knowledge about the objective truth about something
Knowledge of the poetics of space which caters to the dream
Knowledge which represents the orients based upon creations
Knowledge that is constructed based upon assumptions
Is Orientalism dead?
Hard to say
No
Yes
It was dead a long timea go
What did Orientalism helped?
Colonialism
Empirical knowledge
Slavery
Western domination of the East
Is Orientalism completely equal to Colonialism?
Yes
No but it has a strong relationship with colonialism
Yes but only in colonized countries
"In the depths of this Oriental stage stands a prodigious cultural repertoire whose individual items evoke a fabulously rich world: the Sphinx, Cleopatra, Eden, Troy, Sodom and Gomorrah, Astarte, Isis and Osiris, Sheba, Babylon, the Genii, the Magi, Nineveh, Prester John, Mahomet, and dozens more; settings, in some cases names only, half-imagined, half-known; monsters, devils, heroes; terrors, pleasures, desires."
Edward Said is talking about?
The East is imagined using exotic icons
Heroes and monsters in the Eastern world
Cultural stage of the Orient
What did Barthelemy d'Herbelot write?
Bibliotheque
Orientalism
Novels
Inferno
What did Dante write?
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Tragedy
The Divine Irony
Inferno
The Orient and Islam are always represented as:
barbaric outsiders
saviors of Western civilization
producers of technology
translators of Greek texts
Can a person from the East also be an Orientalist?
Yes because they can end up believing in the narratives provided by the Orientalists
Yes because they are paid by the Orientalists
No because the word Orientalist is only used to describe a person from the West
No because it is impossible
Mohammed is described in the Orientalist understanding as an?
Imposter
Prophet
Trader
Historical figure
Is a person from the West who likes Eastern cultures necessarily an Orientalist?
Definitely
Yes
No
Not sure
What cured German Orientalists from the Orientalist taste?
an eight-armed Indian statue
an elephant statue
statue of a Hindu god
statue of Mahatma Gandhi
