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

2. 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.

3. The author claims that historians should attend to the phenomena of invented traditions because they provide evidence for historical ______.
(a) Religions.
(b) Wars.
(c) Societies.
(d) Trends.

4. The book asserts that traditions are invented when old ____ forms are deliberately not used or adapted.
(a) Psychological.
(b) Political.
(c) Social.
(d) Religious.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The spread of Highland dress was brought about by the Highland Society in _____ in the eighteenth century.

3. According to the book, the Rev. Macpherson helped start a cultural re-writing process that lasted for a _______.

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

5. The author suggests that one of the aspects of _______ is the fact that they have an ideological function.

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