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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. Hobsbawm asserts that one of the factors that makes _______ unique is that they do not allow for variance in practice.
(a) Routines.
(b) Customs.
(c) Traditions.
(d) Rituals.

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

3. Hobsbawm suggests in the book that the Highland costume changed in the ______ century.
(a) Nineteenth.
(b) Eighteenth.
(c) Fourteenth.
(d) Seventeenth.

4. The author asserts that attitudes were ______ in Wales and thus there was a loss of cultural self-confidence.
(a) Anglicized.
(b) Russianized.
(c) Germanized.
(d) Africanized.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the book, the Welsh were once addicted to ________ and fortune tellers, long after their popularity died out in England.

3. The book asserts that the creation of invented traditions helps historians make sense of human relations in the _______.

4. According to ______ Morgan, there were a number of groups and individuals who were involved in preservation of Welsh culture.

5. The author asserts that one of the factors that made the book so powerful was(were) the _______.

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