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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 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge collected Welsh ______ in order to preserve the culture.
(a) Art.
(b) Sculptures.
(c) Verse.
(d) Prose.

2. The book also states that tradition was used by the ______ against the youth, who became susceptible to the Europeans.
(a) Diplomats.
(b) Proletariat.
(c) Peasants.
(d) Elders.

3. _______ was created out of a movement to moralize and evangelize the Welsh people.
(a) Methodism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Lutheranism.

4. One of the costume changes that occurred was the discontinuation of use of the ______.
(a) Short shirt.
(b) Long shirt.
(c) Socks.
(d) Kilt.

5. The author claims that ancient materials and _______ are used to construct invented traditions to which new powerful rituals are tied.
(a) Dates.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Calendars.
(d) Planets.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the time of the empress, Indian _______ were ordered into a hierarchy and new titles were created.

2. The official sanction of the Empress of India was established by the _______ of 1876.

3. The aspects of ritual dance and performance to be studied include all of the following except ______.

4. The British turned themselves into insiders by giving their monarch ________ over India.

5. According to the book, _______ of old traditions is one of the causes of the invention of traditions.

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