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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In theory, India was supposed to be maintained as a ______ order, and many saw the integration as a cultural statement.
(a) Monastic.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Communist.
(d) Feudal.

2. Whites allowed some blacks to join the _______ and then employed European invented traditions to exercise power.
(a) Ruling class.
(b) Shipwright class.
(c) Guilds.
(d) Peasant class.

3. African custom was in a state of _____, meaning that there was a great deal of change.
(a) War.
(b) Flux.
(c) Homeostasis.
(d) Stasis.

4. Europeans inside of neo-traditions believed that they had respect for the local _______.
(a) Followers.
(b) Economics.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Customs.

5. Africans saw the importance and power of European monarchical and ______ traditions and attempted to use them.
(a) Religious.
(b) Military.
(c) Agricultural.
(d) Economic.

6. The book states that blacks were taught ______ through monarchical traditions.
(a) Domination.
(b) Co-creation.
(c) Subordination.
(d) Partialization.

7. The author refers to all of the following grand ceremonies during the second period except _______.
(a) Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
(b) The coronation of George V.
(c) The funeral of Edward VII.
(d) The funeral of George V.

8. According to the book, royal ceremonials may have been an expression of national _______.
(a) Doubt.
(b) Self-confidence.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Arrogance.

9. The British turned themselves into insiders by giving their monarch ________ over India.
(a) Land.
(b) Ships.
(c) Sovereignty.
(d) Money.

10. The author states that the last great ceremony in the third period was _________ coronation in 1953.
(a) King Edward VII's.
(b) Queen Elizabeth I's.
(c) King George VI's.
(d) Queen Elizabeth II's.

11. According to the book, the committee also intended to impose a British ideal of aristocracy and _______ on the people.
(a) Religion.
(b) Communism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Citizenship.

12. According to the book, Africans often changed ______ identities. Competition was the rule.
(a) Economic.
(b) Educational.
(c) National.
(d) Tribal.

13. During the third period, the monarchy came to represent all of the following qualities except _______.
(a) Obsequiousness.
(b) Consensus.
(c) Community.
(d) Stability.

14. The author states that there were some _______ Indians and Europeans located in camps around the ceremony area.
(a) 150,000.
(b) 240,000.
(c) 24,000.
(d) 84,000.

15. One of the strategies of the colonialists was to invest _______ and make European activity in Africa respectable.
(a) Ships.
(b) Capital.
(c) Religion.
(d) Livestock.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book also states that tradition was used by the ______ against the youth, who became susceptible to the Europeans.

2. According to the book, Europeans saw African customs through their own ______.

3. A committee of the assemblage used Indian cultural symbols to help assert the Queen's authority, thus the ceremony was held in _______, the Mughal capital.

4. According to the book, the fourth period is characterized by romantic glamor, partly due to ________ advances.

5. The activities that surrounded the assemblage were scheduled to last for _______ weeks.

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