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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book asserts that traditions are invented when old ____ forms are deliberately not used or adapted.
(a) Psychological.
(b) Religious.
(c) Social.
(d) Political.

2. Cannadine asserts that during the first period, monarchs could dissolve _______ and vote on membership in the House of Lords.
(a) Congress.
(b) Parliament.
(c) The House of Representatives.
(d) The United Nations.

3. The author suggests that all of the concepts in question 26 rest on what he calls social ________.
(a) Isolation.
(b) Construction.
(c) Engineering.
(d) De-construction.

4. The book asserts that the creation of invented traditions helps historians make sense of human relations in the _______.
(a) Culture.
(b) Present.
(c) Past.
(d) Future.

5. Hobsbawm asserts that invented traditions can often be found when cultures look to maintain ______ patterns.
(a) Behavioral.
(b) Social.
(c) Geographical.
(d) Psychological.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, even ______ resistance movement could not initially dislodge the British.

2. A number of ministers from all of the following backgrounds except ______, began to use Druidic theology.

3. Europeans responded to the changes by ______ some of the practices and leaving others alone.

4. The author suggests that the ______ established in created rituals is false and only seems real in the mind.

5. The author claims that invented traditions of the _______ revolution can be classified into three types.

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