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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. According to the author, values and norms are established through ______ in ritual and tie back to the past.
(a) Repetition.
(b) Chanting.
(c) Singular use.
(d) Sacrifice.

2. Hobsbawm suggests that the 19th century _____ ideology of social change had to have a new tradition to support it, since it didn't fit in old patterns.
(a) Liberal.
(b) Sectarian.
(c) Religious.
(d) Conservative.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The book states that many of the invented traditions are filling the space left by the _____ decline of old tradition and culture.

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

5. The book asserts that the creation of invented traditions helps historians make sense of human relations in the _______.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the author mean in this manuscript when he says that traditions have tacit rules?

5. What are the invented concepts of which more sense can be made by the study of invented traditions?

6. When and why did the most common symbols of the Scotsmen develop, according to the book?

7. Why was it surprising that the Welsh cultural life was beginning to fall apart in the eighteenth to early nineteenth century?

8. What did Welsh scholars and patriots rediscover about their past as they began to notice interest declining?

9. What was abandoned during the time of the Welsh cultural decay, causing more troubles?

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

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