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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 Juniper Tree Stands Alone?
(a) A forest.
(b) A river.
(c) A sandy area.
(d) A flat area containing houses.

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

3. What does Basso say ecological studies cannot fully account for?
(a) How individuals make and act on cultural meanings.
(b) How Apache did not kill all the rattlesnakes.
(c) How people interacted with nature.
(d) How animals reproduce.

4. According to legend, why were the owners of Shades of Shit forced to stay home?
(a) They refused to share their toilet.
(b) It was snowing.
(c) They refused to share their corn.
(d) It was raining.

5. What do the Cibecue think the land makes people?
(a) Immoral.
(b) Happy.
(c) Rich.
(d) Moral.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many articles does Keith say he wrote on the place he visited in 1959?

2. How many years did Keith Basso say he had spent in a village of Western Apaches when he stumbled onto place-names?

3. What does Keith say about the name Juniper Tree Stands Alone?

4. What happened to Basso's nose, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?

5. What does Basso say the story might have been?

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