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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the places does Charles Henry say were created first?
(a) Place-names.
(b) Place-worlds.
(c) Place-nouns.
(d) Place-peoples.

2. What was Snakes' Water named for?
(a) It was where snakes reproduce.
(b) It was where snakes were killed.
(c) Snakes blocked the Apache from accessing the water.
(d) The river was shaped like a snake.

3. What does Keith Basso argue our sense of place is as natural as?
(a) Our love of freedom.
(b) Love.
(c) Culinary tastes.
(d) Breathing.

4. Who said, "Wherever things look bright"?
(a) Basso.
(b) Henry.
(c) Marks.
(d) Johnson.

5. What does Keith Basso say ethnographers thought of places?
(a) They studied them slowly.
(b) They took them for granted.
(c) They ignored them.
(d) They over simplified them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the translation of the name of the place Basso and Charles Henry were at?

2. Who does Keith Basso say worked for years in community where ties to places were vital?

3. What was Charles Henry's nephew's name?

4. What does Keith Basso say the first question in the book is as old as?

5. What does Keith Basso say were in short supply?

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