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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. How do the Apache see the past, according to Basso?
(a) As a field.
(b) As a trail.
(c) As a woman.
(d) As a river.

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

3. What does Keith Basso say the human attachments to places remain?
(a) An enigma.
(b) An understudied field.
(c) A disputed field.
(d) A well documented fact.

4. When did Charles decide to stop working for Basso?
(a) Third day of August.
(b) Second day of August.
(c) Second week of August.
(d) Second day of June.

5. What does Keith Basso say the sense of place is a possession of?
(a) Clans.
(b) Society.
(c) Particular individuals.
(d) Tribes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Snakes' Water named for?

2. What does Keith Basso say was easy even without a written history?

3. What subtle element does Keith Basso say would assert the sense of place?

4. What is the first question asked in the "Preface"?

5. What place does Keith Basso say he visited in the summer 1959?

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