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

2. According to the book, the minister of ______ wrote a Critical Dissertation, in which he provided the context for Macpherson's transposed locations.
(a) Ossian.
(b) Sleat.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Skye.

3. The author suggests that one of the aspects of _______ is the fact that they have an ideological function.
(a) Custom.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Routine.

4. The author also makes a distinction between traditions and ______, which have no ritual or symbolic significance.
(a) Rites.
(b) Routines.
(c) Rifts.
(d) Rituals.

5. According to the book, the notion of a distinct Highland culture is a myth that did not exist prior to the _______ century.
(a) Seventeenth.
(b) Sixteenth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Eighteenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, values and norms are established through ______ in ritual and tie back to the past.

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

3. Both books were written by the same authors, known as the _____ Stuarts.

4. Macpherson was responsible for taking Irish ______, and transferring the settings from Ireland to Scotland.

5. Hobsbawm suggests that the 19th century _____ ideology of social change had to have a new tradition to support it, since it didn't fit in old patterns.

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