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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. 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.

2. The author asserts that attitudes were ______ in Wales and thus there was a loss of cultural self-confidence.
(a) Africanized.
(b) Russianized.
(c) Germanized.
(d) Anglicized.

3. The old Welsh histories followed the lives of each of the Welsh _______ and their lineage and descendants.
(a) Queens.
(b) Emperors.
(c) Kings.
(d) Princes.

4. Hobsbawm asserts that invented traditions can often be found when cultures look to maintain ______ patterns.
(a) Social.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Behavioral.
(d) Geographical.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hobsbawm suggests in the book that the Highland costume changed in the ______ century.

2. Hobsbawm makes a point to distinguish traditions from ______, which allow more fluctuation.

3. The author suggests that all of the concepts in question 26 rest on what he calls social ________.

4. Hobsbawm asserts that one of the factors that makes _______ unique is that they do not allow for variance in practice.

5. The book that was challenged by the descendants of the kings was titled _______ of a Century.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author use the term 'invented tradition' in this manuscript?

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

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

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

5. What are the three aspects of invented tradition that serve to keep it in place, according to this manuscript?

6. What is the name of the well-written and powerful work about the Scotsmen that contains many colorful illustrations?

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

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

9. What was the basic type of invented tradition, according to the writer in the book?

10. What happened as a result of a loss of cultural self confidence, according to the book?

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