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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 was Snakes' Water?
(a) A boot factory.
(b) An inactive spring.
(c) A small stream.
(d) A large snake pit.

2. What was Nick just recovering from in 1981, according to Basso?
(a) Back surgery.
(b) The flu.
(c) A broken arm.
(d) Paralysis.

3. What does Basso say nearly all the place-names are in the Western Apache Language?
(a) Without meaning.
(b) Cryptic.
(c) Complete sentences.
(d) Long.

4. Who does Basso say were often concerned with the connection between American Indian communities and their ecological settings?
(a) Scholars.
(b) Ecologists.
(c) Anthropologists.
(d) Apaches.

5. What does Basso argue Spicer judges the Apache with?
(a) Western Standards.
(b) Backward standards.
(c) American standards.
(d) Third world standards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded the project that the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggested to Keith Basso?

2. What did the people speaking of the ill brother construct, according to Basso?

3. What type of events does Basso say the Apaches did not have?

4. What does Basso say generated a wide range of cognitive associations?

5. What does Keith Basso say the sense of place is a possession of?

(see the answer key)

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