The Invention of Tradition Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Eric Hobsawm and Terence Ranger
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 103 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Invention of Tradition Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Eric Hobsawm and Terence Ranger
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 103 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Hobsbawm asserts that exceptions to the decline in question 22 exist in all of the following areas except ______.
(a) School.
(b) Administration.
(c) Armed forces.
(d) Law.

2. 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 seek to usurp authority.
(c) Traditions that establish or symbolize social cohesion.
(d) Traditions that promote socialization

3. The invented traditions referred to in question 17 include all of the following types except _______.
(a) Traditions that promote socialization.
(b) Traditions that legitimize institutions of authority.
(c) Traditions that establish or symbolize social cohesion.
(d) Traditions that seek to usurp authority.

4. According to the author, values and norms are established through ______ in ritual and tie back to the past.
(a) Chanting.
(b) Singular use.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Repetition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that the invention of tradition involves _______ and ritualization with reference to the past.

2. Hobsbawm claims that new invented traditions tend to be _____ and not binding, and inculcate general values.

3. In chapter one, the author introduces his concept of ________ which are tied to false histories and have contemporary origins.

4. Hobsbawm believes that many institutions had to reinvent themselves including all of the following except ________.

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

(see the answer key)

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