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

2. The author also makes a distinction between traditions and ______, which have no ritual or symbolic significance.
(a) Rites.
(b) Rifts.
(c) Routines.
(d) Rituals.

3. The British East India company functioned in India in all of the following ways except _______.
(a) Judges.
(b) Legislators.
(c) Religious leadership.
(d) Tax assessors.

4. Hobsbawm asserts that the overtly or tacitly accepted rules of traditions must have a ______ nature.
(a) Antibolic.
(b) Transitional.
(c) Archetypal.
(d) Symbolic.

5. According to the book, _______ had the biggest media impact on the broadcast of figures of the monarchy including George V.
(a) The AAC.
(b) The PBS.
(c) The BBC.
(d) The ABC.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The old Welsh histories held that they were the _____ people of the British Islands.

3. The book asserts that the creation of invented traditions helps historians make sense of human relations in the _______.

4. Blacks were intentionally _______ by the creation of specialized social categories based on European models.

5. The book that was challenged by the descendants of the kings was titled _______ of a Century.

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