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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Introduction, Inventing Traditions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author claims that historians should attend to the phenomena of invented traditions because they provide evidence for historical ______.
(a) Wars.
(b) Societies.
(c) Trends.
(d) Religions.

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

4. The book asserts that the creation of invented traditions helps historians make sense of human relations in the _______.
(a) Culture.
(b) Future.
(c) Present.
(d) Past.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author suggests that invented traditions have mostly arisen in the last ______ hundred years.

2. The author claims that invented traditions of the _______ revolution can be classified into three types.

3. The author states that the invention of tradition involves _______ and ritualization with reference to the past.

4. Hobsbawm suggests that two of the three types of tradition outlined in question 18 tend to support the main tradition, ________.

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

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