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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) Prose.
(b) Sculptures.
(c) Art.
(d) Verse.

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

3. There were several ideas for merging the two cultures ritually. One of the experiments had to do with using the anthem "God Save the _____".
(a) King.
(b) Queen.
(c) Empress.
(d) Emperor.

4. The author derides the British media for thinking the rituals are over ______ years old when in fact they are relatively new.
(a) 500.
(b) 1000.
(c) 100.
(d) 50.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ decided that Welsh culture should be preserved and helped develop the invention of a tradition.

2. According to the author, values and norms are established through ______ in ritual and tie back to the past.

3. Hobsbawm suggests that the 19th century _____ ideology of social change had to have a new tradition to support it, since it didn't fit in old patterns.

4. The author discusses the history of the kilt, which is also known as the ________.

5. According to the book, the basic type of invented tradition was called ______, which outlined the historical practices of a particular group.

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