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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Speaking With Names.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice from Dudley Patterson does Keith Basso say he followed?
(a) He wrote a book.
(b) He left.
(c) He slept.
(d) He learned.

2. What does Keith Basso say places were creating a means of in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?
(a) People.
(b) Events.
(c) Personal worth.
(d) Historical imagination.

3. What does Basso say ethnographers immersed in a foreign culture with a foreign language must be cautious and understanding of, in "Chapter 3, Speaking With Names"?
(a) "Internal realities are created from cultural concepts."
(b) "External realities are created from cultural concepts."
(c) "External realities are created from national concepts."
(d) "External realities are destroyed by cultural concepts."

4. What does Basso say the place-names were used for by the woman whose brother was ill?
(a) To hear her ancestors.
(b) To quiet her down.
(c) To wish for his speedy recovery.
(d) To complain about him.

5. What does Basso say almost ceased to exist in anthropology?
(a) Studies of places.
(b) Good professors.
(c) Study of the American Indian place-name systems.
(d) Field studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories" start?

2. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe determine it would be unwise to do?

3. What subtle element does Keith Basso say would assert the sense of place?

4. How does Basso say the Apache understand communication?

5. What problem does Basso say using place-names in the conversation about the brother solve?

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