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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. According to legend, why were the owners of Shades of Shit forced to stay home?
(a) It was snowing.
(b) They refused to share their corn.
(c) It was raining.
(d) They refused to share their toilet.

2. Who were the Apache hiding from, according to Keith?
(a) The Iroquois.
(b) The Shenooks.
(c) The Anasazis.
(d) The Navajo.

3. What does Basso say names of places tended to indicate?
(a) Wetter climates in early generations.
(b) A good imagination
(c) A larger population.
(d) A smaller clan.

4. Which of the places does Charles Henry say were created first?
(a) Place-nouns.
(b) Place-names.
(c) Place-peoples.
(d) Place-worlds.

5. What does Keith Basso say must be lived as well?
(a) The stories.
(b) Locally produced plays.
(c) The elder's life.
(d) Locally imagined history.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many places did the three men travel, according to Chapter 1?

2. What was Snakes' Water named for?

3. What does Keith Basso say places were creating a means of in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?

4. What did Charles Henry use to downplay the tension during his trip with Basso?

5. Who does Keith Basso say was the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe?

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