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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 book asserts that traditions are invented when old ____ forms are deliberately not used or adapted.
(a) Political.
(b) Social.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Religious.

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

3. Hobsbawm asserts that exceptions to the decline in question 22 exist in all of the following areas except ______.
(a) Law.
(b) Armed forces.
(c) Administration.
(d) School.

4. Macpherson was responsible for taking Irish ______, and transferring the settings from Ireland to Scotland.
(a) Sonnets.
(b) Ballads.
(c) Poems.
(d) Plays.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the costume changes that occurred was the discontinuation of use of the ______.

2. In the middle of the nineteenth century a book called the _______ of the Clans was written that reinforced the myth.

3. The author claims that the Highland regiments fighting in _______ and the U.S. adopted the Highland garb.

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

5. The author suggests that one of the aspects of _______ is the fact that they have an ideological function.

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