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

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) Rituals.
(c) Traditions.
(d) Customs.

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

3. Hobsbawm claims that Sir Walter Scott and _______ promoted the Highland takeover.
(a) Lieutenant Stewart.
(b) Colonel Williams.
(c) Lieutenant Williams.
(d) Colonel Stewart.

4. The Highland Society had many aims including the repeal of laws forbidding _______ in Scotland.
(a) Highland dress.
(b) Bagpipes.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Prima Nocta.

5. The author suggests that one of the aspects of _______ is the fact that they have an ideological function.
(a) Routine.
(b) Custom.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Ritual.

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

7. The author claims that the Scots were merely ______ invaders from the fifth century and the Scottish culture was a crude imitation of the invaders.
(a) Germanic.
(b) Scandinavian.
(c) English.
(d) Irish.

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

9. The author claims that the Highland regiments fighting in _______ and the U.S. adopted the Highland garb.
(a) India.
(b) Guinea.
(c) England.
(d) Pakistan.

10. According to the book, Welsh scholars and patriots rediscovered past traditions in all of the following areas except ______.
(a) Historical.
(b) Musical.
(c) Linguistic.
(d) Literary.

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

12. The author claims that ancient materials and _______ are used to construct invented traditions to which new powerful rituals are tied.
(a) Dates.
(b) Planets.
(c) Calendars.
(d) Symbols.

13. The invented traditions referred to in question 17 include all of the following types except _______.
(a) Traditions that promote socialization.
(b) Traditions that establish or symbolize social cohesion.
(c) Traditions that legitimize institutions of authority.
(d) Traditions that seek to usurp authority.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the costume changes that occurred was the discontinuation of use of the ______.

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

3. The old Welsh histories held that they were the _____ people of the British Islands.

4. The druids were originally authority figures and bards and were thought to have built _______.

5. Hobsbawm believes that many institutions had to reinvent themselves including all of the following except ________.

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