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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first question asked in the "Preface"?
(a) Why do we exist?
(b) What do people make of place?
(c) What do people live for?
(d) Who are Apache?

2. What does Basso argue history is for the Western Apache?
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) A craft.
(c) Worthy of songs.
(d) Taught by the elders.

3. What grants did Keith Basso receive to do his work in Indian country?
(a) The Smithsonian Institution.
(b) The Anthropological Anonymous Association.
(c) The National Science Group of Anthropology.
(d) The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

4. What were the Apaches looking for that named the place Basso and Charles Henry were at?
(a) A place to plant their crop.
(b) A place to bury their dead.
(c) A safe place to settle.
(d) A place to build a temple.

5. Why did Charles Henry decide to stop working for Basso?
(a) He needed to make money.
(b) He needed to drive cattle.
(c) He needed to make medicine.
(d) He needed to go on a retreat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What years was Keith Basso's project spread across?

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

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

5. What does Charles Henry say was tied to the places that were first created?

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