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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Invention of Tradition, The Highland Tradition of Scotland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the victory at ______ , the English made several moves to destroy the Highland way of life.
(a) Skye.
(b) Darnaway Forest.
(c) Ossian.
(d) Culloden.

2. The author also makes a distinction between traditions and ______, which have no ritual or symbolic significance.
(a) Rites.
(b) Routines.
(c) Rifts.
(d) Rituals.

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

4. 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) Sectarian.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Religious.
(d) Liberal.

5. 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) Irish.
(b) English.
(c) Germanic.
(d) Scandinavian.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Hobsbawm asserts that Scotsmen celebrate their identity with common symbols including the kilt and ______.

2. Hobsbawm claims that Sir Walter Scott and _______ promoted the Highland takeover.

3. The author asserts that one of the factors that made the book so powerful was(were) the _______.

4. Hobsbawm asserts that exceptions to the decline in question 22 exist in all of the following areas except ______.

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

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