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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Mass-Producing Traditions, Europe, 1870-1914.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whites allowed some blacks to join the _______ and then employed European invented traditions to exercise power.
(a) Peasant class.
(b) Shipwright class.
(c) Ruling class.
(d) Guilds.

2. The author also makes a distinction between traditions and ______, which have no ritual or symbolic significance.
(a) Rifts.
(b) Rituals.
(c) Routines.
(d) Rites.

3. The author suggests that all of the concepts in question 26 rest on what he calls social ________.
(a) De-construction.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Construction.

4. The Welsh lineage included all of the following backgrounds with the exception of _______.
(a) Breton.
(b) Cornish.
(c) Celt.
(d) Scandinavian.

5. Hobsbawm suggests that the Scottish symbols and practices existed in the past in rudimentary form but were considered ______ by most Scots.
(a) Noble.
(b) Barbaric.
(c) Elegant.
(d) Fashionable.

Short Answer Questions

1. African custom was in a state of _____, meaning that there was a great deal of change.

2. Hobsbawm claims that new invented traditions tend to be _____ and not binding, and inculcate general values.

3. A committee of the assemblage used Indian cultural symbols to help assert the Queen's authority, thus the ceremony was held in _______, the Mughal capital.

4. Hobsbawm asserts that invented traditions can often be found when cultures look to maintain ______ patterns.

5. One organization that claimed elite connections was called _______ of the American Revolution.

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