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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The druids were originally authority figures and bards and were thought to have built _______.
(a) Stonewall.
(b) Stonehenge.
(c) Stonehinge.
(d) Stone circle.

2. According to the book, the ______ movement and its association with the noble savage helped produce the invented tradition.
(a) Industrial.
(b) Commercial.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Enlightenment.

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

4. According to the book, _______ promoted the Highland form of dress as part of their work with the Celtic society.
(a) Poets.
(b) Military.
(c) Civilians.
(d) Lawyers.

5. In the middle of the nineteenth century a book called the _______ of the Clans was written that reinforced the myth.
(a) Dress.
(b) Costume.
(c) Garb.
(d) Cloth.

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ was created out of a movement to moralize and evangelize the Welsh people.

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

3. Macpherson was responsible for taking Irish ______, and transferring the settings from Ireland to Scotland.

4. The author suggests that one of the aspects of _______ is the fact that they have an ideological function.

5. According to the book, all of the following people except _______, were pivotal in creating a distinct history.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two of the general values that new invented traditions tend to inculcate, according to the book?

2. Why should historians be more aware of the tradition phenomena that occurs in modern society?

3. What did James Macpherson do in order to help invent the history of the Scottish people?

4. Where were the Highland regiments fighting when they took on the wearing of the kilt?

5. Where can exceptions to traditions be found, though some traditions have filled in the space abandoned by secular decline?

6. What helps to produce the invented tradition of the kilt within the Scottish mythology?

7. Who does the book uncover the Scots to be, unlike what many people today think of the Scottish people?

8. What is the meaning and the practice of the tradition 'eisteddfod' according to the book?

9. What are the three different types of invented traditions, according to the book?

10. Who are the three individuals mentioned by the author as being helpful for inventing a distinct history?

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