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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 Map Foundation.
(c) The National Ethnology Foundation.
(d) The National Sociology Foundation.

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

3. How does Keith Basso describe his profession?
(a) Ethnographers.
(b) A topologist.
(c) Linguists.
(d) Ethnographer-linguists.

4. How does Basso say Apache see history as being?
(a) Episodic, personal, subjective, and variable.
(b) Episodic, impersonal, subjective, and variable.
(c) Episodic, personal, subjective, and invariable.
(d) Long, personal, subjective, and variable.

5. What was Snakes' Water?
(a) An inactive spring.
(b) A small stream.
(c) A boot factory.
(d) A large snake pit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Keith Basso say worked for years in community where ties to places were vital?

2. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe determine it would be unwise to do?

3. What were two of the places Basso went to explained to him as being?

4. How many parts did the project suggested by the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe have?

5. How old was Keith Basso in 1959?

(see the answer key)

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