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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. What happened to Basso's nose, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?
(a) It was cut.
(b) It bled.
(c) It was shot.
(d) He was stung by hornets.

2. What does Keith Basso say ethnographers thought of places?
(a) They ignored them.
(b) They over simplified them.
(c) They studied them slowly.
(d) They took them for granted.

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

4. When did Edward Spicer say Western Apache would not become tribal historians?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1969.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Basso's bitten by the centipede?

2. Who were the Apache hiding from, according to Keith?

3. Which of the places does Charles Henry say were created first?

4. What does Keith Basso say each chapter of the book would be centered on?

5. What does Keith Basso say the first question in the book is as old as?

(see the answer key)

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