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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. During the third period, ceremonies became symbols of national hope and pride. Large ______ ceremonies for royal children helped to convey this aspect.
(a) Baptism.
(b) Golden jubilee.
(c) Rites of passage.
(d) Marriage.

2. Cannadine asserts that during the first period, monarchs could dissolve _______ and vote on membership in the House of Lords.
(a) The House of Representatives.
(b) Parliament.
(c) Congress.
(d) The United Nations.

3. Blacks were intentionally _______ by the creation of specialized social categories based on European models.
(a) Co-mingled.
(b) Militant.
(c) Divided.
(d) Unified.

4. The formation of occupational roles led to ______ by the Africans and allowed social and political rule by the British.
(a) Aggression.
(b) Agricultrure.
(c) Submission.
(d) Domination.

5. The third period began at the end of ________ and lasted until the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953.
(a) World War I.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. The aspects of ritual dance and performance to be studied include all of the following except ______.

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

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

4. According to the book, Europeans saw African customs through their own ______.

5. According to the book, _______ and transport innovation made accenting grandeur even easier for royal ceremonies.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the Indian Mutiny and what it meant for the British as well as for the Indians in that time period.

3. What did the committee, headed by Thomas Thornton, seek to replace in India?

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

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

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

7. What did the nineteenth century English elites begin to think of the monarchy during that time period?

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

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

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

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