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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 Welsh lineage included all of the following backgrounds with the exception of _______.
(a) Breton.
(b) Scandinavian.
(c) Cornish.
(d) Celt.

2. At the beginning of Chapter Four, the author notes that few heads of state are more popular than _______.
(a) King Edward V.
(b) Queen Elizabeth I.
(c) King Louis XV.
(d) Queen Elizabeth II.

3. 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.

4. One of the parts of Welsh history held that the Welsh were first _______ and fought against the pagan Saxons.
(a) Buddhists.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Jews.
(d) Christians.

5. Cohn suggests that the British spent much of the early ______ century trying to construct rituals that would legitimize British authority.
(a) 18th.
(b) 20th.
(c) 17th.
(d) 19th.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. The Scottish symbols are ascribed to antiquity; however, they were developed much more recently as a protest against _______.

3. One of the strategies of the colonialists was to invest _______ and make European activity in Africa respectable.

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

5. Hobsbawm claims that in Wales a native legal system was abolished and the old _______ was outlawed.

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