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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author claims that the Highland regiments fighting in _______ and the U.S. adopted the Highland garb.
(a) England.
(b) Guinea.
(c) India.
(d) Pakistan.

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

3. Tribal African rulers used attitudes derived from neo-traditional monarchy to legitimize ______.
(a) The slave trade.
(b) The economy.
(c) Subservience.
(d) Power.

4. According to the book, the Rev. Macpherson helped start a cultural re-writing process that lasted for a _______.
(a) Year.
(b) Milennium.
(c) Century.
(d) Decade.

5. The author also believes that new invented traditions have practices that are _______, like saying the American pledge of allegiance.
(a) Excitatory.
(b) Compulsory.
(c) Voluntary.
(d) Impulsory.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book also states that tradition was used by the ______ against the youth, who became susceptible to the Europeans.

2. The author suggests that all of the concepts in question 26 rest on what he calls social ________.

3. The author claims that the Scots were merely ______ invaders from the fifth century and the Scottish culture was a crude imitation of the invaders.

4. In the early nineteenth century the Celtic Society of ______ was founded and pushed the Highland cause.

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

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