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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 believes that many institutions had to reinvent themselves including all of the following except ________.
(a) Professional armies.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) The Protestant Church.
(d) Law-courts.

2. Hobsbawm asserts that invented traditions can often be found when cultures look to maintain ______ patterns.
(a) Behavioral.
(b) Social.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Geographical.

3. Hobsbawm suggests that the 19th century _____ ideology of social change had to have a new tradition to support it, since it didn't fit in old patterns.
(a) Religious.
(b) Sectarian.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Conservative.

4. The author claims that ancient materials and _______ are used to construct invented traditions to which new powerful rituals are tied.
(a) Calendars.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Dates.
(d) Planets.

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

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

3. Hobsbawm makes a point to distinguish traditions from ______, which allow more fluctuation.

4. Hobsbawm asserts that exceptions to the decline in question 22 exist in all of the following areas except ______.

5. The book states that many of the invented traditions are filling the space left by the _____ decline of old tradition and culture.

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