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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Invention of Tradition, The Highland Tradition of Scotland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author claims that ancient materials and _______ are used to construct invented traditions to which new powerful rituals are tied.
(a) Dates.
(b) Calendars.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Planets.

2. After the victory at ______ , the English made several moves to destroy the Highland way of life.
(a) Culloden.
(b) Darnaway Forest.
(c) Skye.
(d) Ossian.

3. The Scottish symbols are ascribed to antiquity; however, they were developed much more recently as a protest against _______.
(a) Ireland.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

4. Hobsbawm suggests that the Scottish symbols and practices existed in the past in rudimentary form but were considered ______ by most Scots.
(a) Fashionable.
(b) Barbaric.
(c) Noble.
(d) Elegant.

5. The Highland Society had many aims including the repeal of laws forbidding _______ in Scotland.
(a) Weddings.
(b) Highland dress.
(c) Bagpipes.
(d) Prima Nocta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to the myth of the Highland culture, the Scottish people were merely an overflow of ________.

2. The author also believes that new invented traditions have practices that are _______, like saying the American pledge of allegiance.

3. The author asserts that one of the factors that made the book so powerful was(were) the _______.

4. The book asserts that the creation of invented traditions helps historians make sense of human relations in the _______.

5. The author discusses the history of the kilt, which is also known as the ________.

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