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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 believes that many institutions had to reinvent themselves including all of the following except ________.
(a) Law-courts.
(b) Professional armies.
(c) The Protestant Church.
(d) The Catholic Church.

2. The spread of Highland dress was brought about by the Highland Society in _____ in the eighteenth century.
(a) Cornwall.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Edinburgh.

3. Prior to the myth of the Highland culture, the Scottish people were merely an overflow of ________.
(a) France.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Wales.
(d) England.

4. _______ was created out of a movement to moralize and evangelize the Welsh people.
(a) Lutheranism.
(b) Methodism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Islam.

5. In Chapter 2, Hobsbawm asserts that Scotsmen celebrate their identity with common symbols including the kilt and ______.
(a) Drum.
(b) Burin.
(c) Flute.
(d) Bagpipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book asserts that traditions are invented when old ____ forms are deliberately not used or adapted.

2. The author claims that historians should attend to the phenomena of invented traditions because they provide evidence for historical ______.

3. The invented traditions referred to in question 17 include all of the following types except _______.

4. According to the book, the stages of creating the Highland tradition included all of the following elements except _______.

5. According to the book, Welsh scholars and patriots rediscovered past traditions in all of the following areas except ______.

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