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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Introduction, Inventing Traditions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author suggests that all of the concepts in question 26 rest on what he calls social ________.
(a) Construction.
(b) De-construction.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Engineering.

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

3. According to the book, the basic type of invented tradition was called ______, which outlined the historical practices of a particular group.
(a) Communitarian.
(b) Communistic.
(c) Egalitarian.
(d) Libertarian.

4. Hobsbawm claims that new invented traditions tend to be _____ and not binding, and inculcate general values.
(a) Linear.
(b) Clear.
(c) Direct.
(d) Vague.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author suggests that the ______ established in created rituals is false and only seems real in the mind.

2. The author claims that historians should attend to the phenomena of invented traditions because they provide evidence for historical ______.

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

4. The book asserts that traditions are invented when old ____ forms are deliberately not used or adapted.

5. The author suggests that invented traditions have mostly arisen in the last ______ hundred years.

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