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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the time of the empress, Indian _______ were ordered into a hierarchy and new titles were created.
(a) Family titles.
(b) Peasant titles.
(c) Merchant titles.
(d) Royal titles.

2. The author claims that ______ was not well suited for royal ceremonies because many buildings were symbols of the wealth and power of the merchant class.
(a) Surrey.
(b) London.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Canterbury.

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

4. Tribal African rulers used attitudes derived from neo-traditional monarchy to legitimize ______.
(a) The economy.
(b) Power.
(c) The slave trade.
(d) Subservience.

5. During the second period, royal ritual became more splendid and the _______ became a symbol of the nation.
(a) Merchant class.
(b) Monarch.
(c) President.
(d) Prime minister.

6. According to the book, even ______ resistance movement could not initially dislodge the British.
(a) Mother Teresa's.
(b) Mandela's.
(c) The Pope's.
(d) Ghandi's.

7. At the end of the third period, Cannadine suggests there was a high level of _______ exploitation and commemoration.
(a) Political.
(b) Religious.
(c) Racist.
(d) Commercial.

8. According to the book, Europeans saw African customs through their own ______.
(a) Lens.
(b) Television.
(c) Microscope.
(d) Telescope.

9. Africans saw the importance and power of European monarchical and ______ traditions and attempted to use them.
(a) Military.
(b) Religious.
(c) Agricultural.
(d) Economic.

10. According to the book, the committee also intended to impose a British ideal of aristocracy and _______ on the people.
(a) Religion.
(b) Citizenship.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Communism.

11. According to the book, the _______ was responsible for the naming of the queen as the new empress.
(a) British assemblage.
(b) Royal assemblage.
(c) Noble assemblage.
(d) Imperial assemblage.

12. According to the book, the fourth period is characterized by romantic glamor, partly due to ________ advances.
(a) Technological.
(b) Religious.
(c) Moral.
(d) Ethical.

13. The author states that the last great ceremony in the third period was _________ coronation in 1953.
(a) Queen Elizabeth I's.
(b) King George VI's.
(c) King Edward VII's.
(d) Queen Elizabeth II's.

14. According to the book, much of European invented tradition arose in the last ________ years of the nineteenth century.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Ten.

15. The British turned themselves into insiders by giving their monarch ________ over India.
(a) Money.
(b) Land.
(c) Ships.
(d) Sovereignty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Love of ______ and economy brought hatred of displays of wealth by the crown, who also endured indifference from the clergy.

2. Cohn suggests that the British spent much of the early ______ century trying to construct rituals that would legitimize British authority.

3. During the ceremony, the British authority in India was said to have been created by ________ to do what native authorities could not.

4. As a reward for their loyalty to the British, several Indians were given all of the following titles except ______.

5. The third period began at the end of ________ and lasted until the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953.

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