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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. Both books were written by the same authors, known as the _____ Stuarts.
(a) Grochowski.
(b) Novieski.
(c) Vigotsky.
(d) Sobieski.

2. 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) Scandinavian.
(b) English.
(c) Germanic.
(d) Irish.

3. Hobsbawm makes a point to distinguish traditions from ______, which allow more fluctuation.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Customs.
(c) Rituals.
(d) Rites.

4. Hobsbawm asserts that exceptions to the decline in question 22 exist in all of the following areas except ______.
(a) Law.
(b) Administration.
(c) School.
(d) Armed forces.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Macpherson was responsible for taking Irish ______, and transferring the settings from Ireland to Scotland.

3. Hobsbawm asserts that one of the factors that makes _______ unique is that they do not allow for variance in practice.

4. The author states that the invention of tradition involves _______ and ritualization with reference to the past.

5. Hobsbawm suggests in the book that the Highland costume changed in the ______ century.

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