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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. Hobsbawm suggests that the Scottish symbols and practices existed in the past in rudimentary form but were considered ______ by most Scots.
(a) Barbaric.
(b) Fashionable.
(c) Noble.
(d) Elegant.

2. Hobsbawm asserts that one of the factors that makes _______ unique is that they do not allow for variance in practice.
(a) Routines.
(b) Traditions.
(c) Customs.
(d) Rituals.

3. The author suggests that invented traditions have mostly arisen in the last ______ hundred years.
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

4. 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.
(a) Sectarian.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Religious.
(d) Conservative.

5. One of the costume changes that occurred was the discontinuation of use of the ______.
(a) Short shirt.
(b) Long shirt.
(c) Kilt.
(d) Socks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In particular, the author suggests that historians pay attention to the creation of all of the following concepts except _______.

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

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

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

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

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