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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 one of the aspects of _______ is the fact that they have an ideological function.
(a) Tradition.
(b) Custom.
(c) Routine.
(d) Ritual.

2. The book asserts that the creation of invented traditions helps historians make sense of human relations in the _______.
(a) Present.
(b) Culture.
(c) Past.
(d) Future.

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

4. In particular, the author suggests that historians pay attention to the creation of all of the following concepts except _______.
(a) National symbols.
(b) Nation-state.
(c) United Nations.
(d) Nation.

5. The author claims that invented traditions of the _______ revolution can be classified into three types.
(a) Industrial.
(b) Agricultural.
(c) Technological.
(d) Nuclear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hobsbawm asserts that invented traditions can often be found when cultures look to maintain ______ patterns.

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

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

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

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

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