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

2. The author suggests that the ______ established in created rituals is false and only seems real in the mind.
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Continuity.
(c) History.
(d) Division.

3. Hobsbawm asserts that exceptions to the decline in question 22 exist in all of the following areas except ______.
(a) Administration.
(b) School.
(c) Law.
(d) Armed forces.

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

5. In chapter one, the author introduces his concept of ________ which are tied to false histories and have contemporary origins.
(a) Invented traditions.
(b) False traditions.
(c) Valid traditions.
(d) Constructed traditions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hobsbawm suggests that two of the three types of tradition outlined in question 18 tend to support the main tradition, ________.

3. The author claims that ancient materials and _______ are used to construct invented traditions to which new powerful rituals are tied.

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

5. The author claims that invented traditions of the _______ revolution can be classified into three types.

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