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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who said, "Wherever things look bright"?
(a) Henry.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Basso.
(d) Marks.

3. How many articles does Keith say he wrote on the place he visited in 1959?
(a) 8 articles.
(b) 1 article.
(c) 6 articles.
(d) 5 articles.

4. What does Keith Basso say the first question in the book is as old as?
(a) Men.
(b) The discovery of the Apache.
(c) The idea of home.
(d) The start of time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What grants did Keith Basso receive to do his work in Indian country?

2. Who founded the project that the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggested to Keith Basso?

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

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

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

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