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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh Past in the Romantic Period.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book Invention of Tradition is _______, meaning that it pulls on several different knowledge areas.
(a) Intradisciplinary.
(b) Disciplinary.
(c) Itinerary.
(d) Interdisciplinary.

2. Hobsbawm suggests that the Scottish symbols and practices existed in the past in rudimentary form but were considered ______ by most Scots.
(a) Barbaric.
(b) Elegant.
(c) Noble.
(d) Fashionable.

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

4. According to the book, the Highland culture was created in _______ distinct stages, the first occurring in the eighteenth century.
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

5. The book asserts that traditions are invented when old ____ forms are deliberately not used or adapted.
(a) Psychological.
(b) Social.
(c) Religious.
(d) Political.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the book, Welsh scholars and patriots rediscovered past traditions in all of the following areas except ______.

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.

5. In the late _______ the Almanack Eisteddfodau was associated with Welsh societies and had greater public impact than before.

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