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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Invention of Tradition, The Highland Tradition of Scotland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author also believes that new invented traditions have practices that are _______, like saying the American pledge of allegiance.
(a) Voluntary.
(b) Impulsory.
(c) Excitatory.
(d) Compulsory.

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

3. The author claims that the Scots were merely ______ invaders from the fifth century and the Scottish culture was a crude imitation of the invaders.
(a) Irish.
(b) English.
(c) Germanic.
(d) Scandinavian.

4. According to the book, the minister of ______ wrote a Critical Dissertation, in which he provided the context for Macpherson's transposed locations.
(a) Skye.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Sleat.
(d) Ossian.

5. In Chapter 2, Hobsbawm asserts that Scotsmen celebrate their identity with common symbols including the kilt and ______.
(a) Drum.
(b) Bagpipe.
(c) Burin.
(d) Flute.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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.

3. The people of the Highlands are known as a _______ society.

4. The author discusses the history of the kilt, which is also known as the ________.

5. According to the book, the Highland culture was created in _______ distinct stages, the first occurring in the eighteenth century.

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