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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. David Cannadine suggests that ____ aspects of ritual, performance and context deserve study.
(a) Eight.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twelve.

2. The author asserts that attitudes were ______ in Wales and thus there was a loss of cultural self-confidence.
(a) Anglicized.
(b) Germanized.
(c) Africanized.
(d) Russianized.

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

4. Cohn suggests that the British spent much of the early ______ century trying to construct rituals that would legitimize British authority.
(a) 20th.
(b) 18th.
(c) 19th.
(d) 17th.

5. The author claims that invented traditions of the _______ revolution can be classified into three types.
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Technological.
(d) Nuclear.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, the minister of ______ wrote a Critical Dissertation, in which he provided the context for Macpherson's transposed locations.

2. In chapter one, the author introduces his concept of ________ which are tied to false histories and have contemporary origins.

3. A number of _______ including Iolo Morganwg became interested in the old Druid practices.

4. The author suggests that invented traditions have mostly arisen in the last ______ hundred years.

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

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