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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. The book Invention of Tradition is _______, meaning that it pulls on several different knowledge areas.
(a) Disciplinary.
(b) Interdisciplinary.
(c) Intradisciplinary.
(d) Itinerary.

2. The author asserts that one of the factors that made the book so powerful was(were) the _______.
(a) Color illustrations.
(b) Historical accuracy.
(c) Fact that it was written by a government official.
(d) Price.

3. Hobsbawm suggests in the book that the Highland costume changed in the ______ century.
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Fourteenth.
(c) Seventeenth.
(d) Nineteenth.

4. The author states that the invention of tradition involves _______ and ritualization with reference to the past.
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Infrastructure.
(c) Formalization.
(d) Institutionalization.

5. The old Welsh histories followed the lives of each of the Welsh _______ and their lineage and descendants.
(a) Emperors.
(b) Queens.
(c) Princes.
(d) Kings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hobsbawm asserts that the overtly or tacitly accepted rules of traditions must have a ______ nature.

2. The Highland garb adopted by the regiments would be used to invent the tradition of ______ dress.

3. Hobsbawm asserts that one of the factors that makes _______ unique is that they do not allow for variance in practice.

4. The author claims that the Scots were merely ______ invaders from the fifth century and the Scottish culture was a crude imitation of the invaders.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the meaning and the practice of the tradition 'eisteddfod' according to the book?

2. Where can exceptions to traditions be found, though some traditions have filled in the space abandoned by secular decline?

3. Who are the three individuals mentioned by the author as being helpful for inventing a distinct history?

4. What helps to produce the invented tradition of the kilt within the Scottish mythology?

5. What are two of the most common symbols that are associated with the Scotsmen society?

6. What was the basic type of invented tradition, according to the writer in the book?

7. What is the name of the well-written and powerful work about the Scotsmen that contains many colorful illustrations?

8. What did the oldest part of the history say about the Welsh and the people of Wales?

9. Why was it surprising that the Welsh cultural life was beginning to fall apart in the eighteenth to early nineteenth century?

10. What did James Macpherson do in order to help invent the history of the Scottish people?

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