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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 claims that historians should attend to the phenomena of invented traditions because they provide evidence for historical ______.
(a) Societies.
(b) Wars.
(c) Trends.
(d) Religions.

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

3. Hobsbawm makes a point to distinguish traditions from ______, which allow more fluctuation.
(a) Customs.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Rituals.
(d) Rites.

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

5. The book Invention of Tradition is _______, meaning that it pulls on several different knowledge areas.
(a) Disciplinary.
(b) Interdisciplinary.
(c) Intradisciplinary.
(d) Itinerary.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author also believes that new invented traditions have practices that are _______, like saying the American pledge of allegiance.

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

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

4. Hobsbawm asserts that one of the factors that makes _______ unique is that they do not allow for variance in practice.

5. According to the book, the basic type of invented tradition was called ______, which outlined the historical practices of a particular group.

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