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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. How many forms of speech did the Cibecue have?
(a) 3 forms.
(b) 6 forms.
(c) 5 forms.
(d) 7 forms.

2. What happened to Basso's nose, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?
(a) He was stung by hornets.
(b) It was shot.
(c) It bled.
(d) It was cut.

3. What does Keith Basso say may have us feel threatened?
(a) Dark places.
(b) Threats to our attachment to a place.
(c) Dangerous names.
(d) Threats to our body.

4. What does Keith Basso say was easy even without a written history?
(a) Imagining the past.
(b) Making stories up.
(c) Creating compelling stories.
(d) Reinterpreting the past.

5. How did the brother became ill?
(a) He was bitten by a rat.
(b) He was stung by bees.
(c) He touched a snake skin.
(d) He ate mushrooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say the maps looked like in mid-July?

2. What do children become that do not not learn to tie places and names with historical tales?

3. What were Western Apaches increasingly emphasizing, according to Basso?

4. When did Edward Spicer say Western Apache would not become tribal historians?

5. What must ethnographers become familiar with, according to Basso?

(see the answer key)

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