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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 must ethnographers become familiar with, according to Basso?
(a) Local culture.
(b) National symbolism.
(c) Local dialect.
(d) Local symbolism.

2. What were two of the places Basso went to explained to him as being?
(a) Place-planets.
(b) Place-worlds.
(c) Place-history.
(d) Place-universes.

3. Where did the story told by Emily happen?
(a) Whiteness Spreads Out Descending To Water.
(b) Utha.
(c) Green Pasture Where Horses Drink.
(d) Where the Trees Grow.

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

5. What does Keith Basso say the human attachments to places remain?
(a) A well documented fact.
(b) An enigma.
(c) An understudied field.
(d) A disputed field.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say names of places tended to indicate?

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

3. What place does Keith Basso say he visited in the summer 1959?

4. What does Basso say the place-names were used for by the woman whose brother was ill?

5. How old was Lola Machuse in the book?

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