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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 author suggests that the ______ established in created rituals is false and only seems real in the mind.
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Continuity.
(c) History.
(d) Division.

2. According to the book, the Highland culture was created in _______ distinct stages, the first occurring in the eighteenth century.
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

3. In particular, the author suggests that historians pay attention to the creation of all of the following concepts except _______.
(a) National symbols.
(b) United Nations.
(c) Nation-state.
(d) Nation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hobsbawm suggests that two of the three types of tradition outlined in question 18 tend to support the main tradition, ________.

2. In the early nineteenth century the Celtic Society of ______ was founded and pushed the Highland cause.

3. The author also believes that new invented traditions have practices that are _______, like saying the American pledge of allegiance.

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

5. According to the book, the notion of a distinct Highland culture is a myth that did not exist prior to the _______ century.

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