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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. One of the strategies of the colonialists was to invest _______ and make European activity in Africa respectable.
(a) Capital.
(b) Religion.
(c) Ships.
(d) Livestock.

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

3. According to the book, blacks were taught to mirror English ________ and non-commissioned officers.
(a) Privates.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Generals.
(d) Lieutenants.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the book, the African _______ used European neo-traditions to create a middle class.

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

4. The official sanction of the Empress of India was established by the _______ of 1876.

5. The activities that surrounded the assemblage were scheduled to last for _______ weeks.

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the ceremony that incorporated India into Britain used?

2. What did African chiefs stand to gain from using the neo-traditions being taught to them?

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

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

5. How might one describe the second stage of the British monarchy, which began when Victoria was made Empress of India?

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

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

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

9. What were some of the functions the British East India Company was performing when they were first in India?

10. What did the British East India Company initially want to do in India?

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