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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. According to the book, the stages of creating the Highland tradition included all of the following elements except _______.
(a) The adoption of new traditions by Lowland Scots.
(b) Cultural revolt against England.
(c) Cultural revolt against Ireland.
(d) Artificial creation of new Highland traditions.

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

3. The people of the Highlands are known as a _______ society.
(a) Berber.
(b) Germanic.
(c) Barbaric.
(d) Celtic.

4. According to the book, the ______ movement and its association with the noble savage helped produce the invented tradition.
(a) Industrial.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Commercial.

5. The Scottish symbols are ascribed to antiquity; however, they were developed much more recently as a protest against _______.
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. In particular, the author suggests that historians pay attention to the creation of all of the following concepts except _______.

2. The author suggests that invented traditions have mostly arisen in the last ______ hundred years.

3. In Chapter 2, Hobsbawm asserts that Scotsmen celebrate their identity with common symbols including the kilt and ______.

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

5. According to the book, _______ promoted the Highland form of dress as part of their work with the Celtic society.

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