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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Macpherson was responsible for taking Irish ______, and transferring the settings from Ireland to Scotland.
(a) Poems.
(b) Ballads.
(c) Plays.
(d) Sonnets.

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

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

4. According to the book, the stages of creating the Highland tradition included all of the following elements except _______.
(a) Cultural revolt against England.
(b) The adoption of new traditions by Lowland Scots.
(c) Cultural revolt against Ireland.
(d) Artificial creation of new Highland traditions.

5. According to the book, _______ of old traditions is one of the causes of the invention of traditions.
(a) Nostalgic remembering.
(b) Loss of meaning.
(c) Falsification.
(d) Destruction.

6. Hobsbawm claims that new invented traditions tend to be _____ and not binding, and inculcate general values.
(a) Linear.
(b) Clear.
(c) Direct.
(d) Vague.

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

8. According to the book, the Welsh were once addicted to ________ and fortune tellers, long after their popularity died out in England.
(a) Poets.
(b) Magicians.
(c) Psychologists.
(d) Healers.

9. The author suggests that invented traditions have mostly arisen in the last ______ hundred years.
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

10. The work by _____ led to the discovery that the Welsh language could be connected to ancient Celtic.
(a) Edward Lhuyd.
(b) Owain Glyndwr.
(c) Rice Jones.
(d) Iolo Morganwg.

11. A number of _______ including Iolo Morganwg became interested in the old Druid practices.
(a) Physicians.
(b) Anthropologists.
(c) Psychologists.
(d) Archaeologists.

12. According to the book, the minister of ______ wrote a Critical Dissertation, in which he provided the context for Macpherson's transposed locations.
(a) Skye.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Sleat.
(d) Ossian.

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

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

15. Hobsbawm asserts that the overtly or tacitly accepted rules of traditions must have a ______ nature.
(a) Antibolic.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Archetypal.
(d) Transitional.

Short Answer Questions

1. A number of ministers from all of the following backgrounds except ______, began to use Druidic theology.

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

3. The author claims that the Highland regiments fighting in _______ and the U.S. adopted the Highland garb.

4. The author claims that the Scots were merely ______ invaders from the fifth century and the Scottish culture was a crude imitation of the invaders.

5. Hobsbawm suggests that the Scottish symbols and practices existed in the past in rudimentary form but were considered ______ by most Scots.

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