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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 the creation of invented traditions helps historians make sense of human relations in the _______.
(a) Future.
(b) Past.
(c) Culture.
(d) Present.

2. In particular, the author suggests that historians pay attention to the creation of all of the following concepts except _______.
(a) National symbols.
(b) Nation.
(c) Nation-state.
(d) United Nations.

3. According to the book, the Highland culture was created in _______ distinct stages, the first occurring in the eighteenth century.
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

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

5. According to the book, _______ of old traditions is one of the causes of the invention of traditions.
(a) Loss of meaning.
(b) Nostalgic remembering.
(c) Falsification.
(d) Destruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. The invented traditions referred to in question 17 include all of the following types except _______.

2. After the victory at ______ , the English made several moves to destroy the Highland way of life.

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

4. The Highland Society had many aims including the repeal of laws forbidding _______ in Scotland.

5. Hobsbawm suggests in the book that the Highland costume changed in the ______ century.

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