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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Wisdom Sits in Places, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Basso three days after the conversation with Talbert?
(a) He got drunk.
(b) He hired Talbert.
(c) He learned Talbert was arrested.
(d) He began to uncover its true meaning.

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

3. When did Charles decide to stop working for Basso?
(a) Third day of August.
(b) Second week of August.
(c) Second day of August.
(d) Second day of June.

4. What does Keith Basso say the answer to the first question in the book is?
(a) Impossible to tell.
(b) Elusive.
(c) Complex.
(d) Simple.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say almost ceased to exist in anthropology?

2. What happened to one of the girls in Dudley's story when they returned to torment the man?

3. When did Basso leave Cibecue in 1981?

4. When did Dudley fall off his horse, according to Basso?

5. What does Basso say the enforcement of norms occurs through for the Cibecue?

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