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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. Who founded the project that the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggested to Keith Basso?
(a) The National Science Foundation.
(b) The National Sociology Foundation.
(c) The National Ethnology Foundation.
(d) The National Map Foundation.

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

3. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe determine it would be unwise to do?
(a) Publish Keith's map.
(b) Hire Charles Henry.
(c) Sell the maps to non-Apache.
(d) Leave the reservation before the maps were done.

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

5. What does Keith Basso say each chapter of the book would be centered on?
(a) A different place.
(b) A different tribe.
(c) A different Apache person.
(d) A different letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "Wherever things look bright"?

2. What was Charles Henry's nephew's name?

3. Who was the local clan leader of the Juniper Tree Stands Alone, at the time of Basso's project?

4. What does Charles Henry think was disrespectful in Keith Basso?

5. Who taught Charles Henry the story of Shades of Shit?

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