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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the book, African ______ and intellectuals used neo-traditions to enhance their own power.
(a) Chiefs.
(b) Diplomats.
(c) Proletariat.
(d) Peasants.

4. 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.

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

6. The book suggests that African politicians, nationalists, and ________ were left with ambiguous legacies.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Students.
(c) Histories.
(d) Economics.

7. African custom was in a state of _____, meaning that there was a great deal of change.
(a) Homeostasis.
(b) Flux.
(c) War.
(d) Stasis.

8. The book states that blacks were taught ______ through monarchical traditions.
(a) Subordination.
(b) Partialization.
(c) Co-creation.
(d) Domination.

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

10. Whites allowed some blacks to join the _______ and then employed European invented traditions to exercise power.
(a) Peasant class.
(b) Ruling class.
(c) Guilds.
(d) Shipwright class.

11. For the assemblage, a/an _______ was built and the seating of Indian rulers was arranged.
(a) Amphitheater.
(b) Royal building.
(c) Theater.
(d) Council building.

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

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

14. The aspects of ritual dance and performance to be studied include all of the following except ______.
(a) The aesthetic sensibility of the people.
(b) Political power of the monarch.
(c) The attitude of the media.
(d) The self-image of the nation.

15. In 1857, the _______ cost the Mughal emperor authority and exposed the coercive basis of his power.
(a) Indian Protest.
(b) Indian walk out.
(c) Indian Revolution.
(d) Indian Mutiny.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the author, the British ruled through the ______ emperor, but due to differences in culture, British prestige was difficult to maintain.

4. According to the book, royal ceremonials may have been an expression of national _______.

5. In the first period, the power that the monarchs wielded made grand ceremonies _______ as did royal unpopularity.

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