Test if you have learned a little bit about the connection of the historical belief systems to modern scottish communication styles!:

  1. Why do the Scots bicker and have witty humor with insults?

    a) Because they feel like it.

    b) It started in medieval royal courts as a secret code so politicians could insult each other behind the King's back without getting caught.

    c) It resulted in coming down from generation from medieval flyting and flat-structured communities, where insulting was how you communicate and how you show affection and keep everyone equal.

  2. What is flyting again in the 15th century?

    a) verbal jousting

    b) rap battle

    c) poetry slam

  3. What was the historical institution that helped promote the classless values found within modern Scottish communication?

    a) The industrial Revolution

    b) The Scottish Reformation

    c) The Norman Conquest

  4. What modern social function does playful verbal bickering and teasing serve in casual Scottish dialogue?

    a) It acts as a tool to enforce strict class divides.

    b) It operates as a historically rooted equalizer designed to take away from the hierarchies and that build trust.

    c) It is a purely a modernized habit that is influenced entirely by social media.

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  1. C

  2. B because that is there way of describing it back then, not A because that is the modern way of describing it.

  3. B

  4. B