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

2. What does Basso say historical tales are often about?
(a) Stories of miseries.
(b) The person that tells them.
(c) The clan.
(d) The person they are told to.

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

4. What are the major narrative genres divided by?
(a) People and place.
(b) Time and purpose.
(c) Time and place.
(d) Purpose and people.

5. What subtle element does Keith Basso say would assert the sense of place?
(a) A memory.
(b) A green door.
(c) An absent smell.
(d) A friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say of the conversation about the ill brother?

2. How long does Basso say he had known Nick Thompson?

3. Why couldn't Lola say that the brother did nothing wrong or openly censure him, according to Basso?

4. What does Keith Basso say of the sociology of Goffman?

5. What does Basso say all human cultures have beliefs about?

(see the answer key)

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