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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. _______ was spread by the colonial powers in Africa, forming a new cultural system.
(a) Islam.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Christianity.

4. During the third period, the royal rituals helped to comfort people during times of _______.
(a) Plenty.
(b) Winter.
(c) Change.
(d) Starvation.

5. According to the book _____ is the term used for an offering of gold coins from a subordinate.
(a) Peshkash.
(b) Khan.
(c) Nazar.
(d) Khelat.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, African ______ and intellectuals used neo-traditions to enhance their own power.

2. The author derides the British media for thinking the rituals are over ______ years old when in fact they are relatively new.

3. The English were not the only ones to used monarchical traditions. The ______ also used them.

4. Men often used tradition against women in order to establish new ______ norms.

5. The sites of the great events of the Indian uprising were a destination for the English and included all of the following except ______.

Short Essay Questions

1. How could the whites who colonized parts of Africa be described, according to the book?

2. What are the ten aspects of ritual that David Cannadine says should be studied?

3. From 1918 to the time of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, what did the British believe about themselves?

4. How did many see the cultural integration when the British were occupying India?

5. What was the first stage of the British monarchy that occurred between the 1820s and the 1870s, according to the book.?

6. How was the cultural system spread in Africa, according to the book?

7. How did the Europeans began to create the idea that gentility was respectable?

8. What happened as a result of the African empires coming so late, according to the book?

9. Into what had the British turned themselves when they gave their monarch sovereignty over to India?

10. Who were the groups of people that mainly imported ideologies that would be used in Africa?

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