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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh Past in the Romantic Period.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The invented traditions referred to in question 17 include all of the following types except _______.
(a) Traditions that legitimize institutions of authority.
(b) Traditions that seek to usurp authority.
(c) Traditions that promote socialization.
(d) Traditions that establish or symbolize social cohesion.

2. According to the book, _______ of old traditions is one of the causes of the invention of traditions.
(a) Destruction.
(b) Loss of meaning.
(c) Nostalgic remembering.
(d) Falsification.

3. A number of ministers from all of the following backgrounds except ______, began to use Druidic theology.
(a) Anglican.
(b) Dissenting.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Unitarian.

4. The work by _____ led to the discovery that the Welsh language could be connected to ancient Celtic.
(a) Rice Jones.
(b) Iolo Morganwg.
(c) Owain Glyndwr.
(d) Edward Lhuyd.

5. Hobsbawm asserts that the overtly or tacitly accepted rules of traditions must have a ______ nature.
(a) Transitional.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Archetypal.
(d) Antibolic.

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 book that was challenged by the descendants of the kings was titled _______ of a Century.

3. The Highland Society had many aims including the repeal of laws forbidding _______ in Scotland.

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

5. Hobsbawm claims that in Wales a native legal system was abolished and the old _______ was outlawed.

(see the answer key)

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