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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual, The British Monarchy and the 'Invention of Tradition', c. 1820-1977.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hobsbawm makes a point to distinguish traditions from ______, which allow more fluctuation.
(a) Rituals.
(b) Rites.
(c) Customs.
(d) Ideas.

3. Hobsbawm suggests that two of the three types of tradition outlined in question 18 tend to support the main tradition, ________.
(a) Traditions that legitimize institutions of authority.
(b) Traditions that seek to usurp authority.
(c) Traditions that establish or symbolize social cohesion.
(d) Traditions that promote socialization

4. The author asserts that the Anglican literature and the ______ Bible kept the Welsh language from decay.
(a) Latin.
(b) Scandinavian.
(c) Welsh.
(d) German.

5. The spread of Highland dress was brought about by the Highland Society in _____ in the eighteenth century.
(a) Cornwall.
(b) Edinburgh.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Hobsbawm asserts that Scotsmen celebrate their identity with common symbols including the kilt and ______.

2. The people of the Highlands are known as a _______ society.

3. The author derides the British media for thinking the rituals are over ______ years old when in fact they are relatively new.

4. During the third period, the royal rituals helped to comfort people during times of _______.

5. The author also makes a distinction between traditions and ______, which have no ritual or symbolic significance.

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