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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Wisdom Sits in Places, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Keith Basso say ethnographers have few of to follow?
(a) Raw models.
(b) Field professors.
(c) Step by step books.
(d) Intellectual maps.

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

3. When do Apache create place-names, according to Basso in the "Epilogue"?
(a) When they have a birth.
(b) When an elder dies.
(c) When they need new roads.
(d) When things of moral significance occur.

4. What did Basso use to explain the effect of symbolism on individuals?
(a) Apache conceptions of people.
(b) Apache conceptions of land.
(c) Apache conceptions of water.
(d) Apache conceptions of history.

5. What does Charles Henry say was tied to the places that were first created?
(a) Sign language.
(b) Ancestral speech.
(c) Modern speech.
(d) People.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say of familiar places?

2. How many areas did Basso and his group chart?

3. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggest Keith Basso do?

4. Whose brother does Basso overhear became ill while visiting Lola?

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

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