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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 place does Keith Basso say he visited in the summer 1959?
(a) Cibecue.
(b) Alawalpa.
(c) Pitucha.
(d) Apatia.

2. What was Snakes' Water named for?
(a) The river was shaped like a snake.
(b) Snakes blocked the Apache from accessing the water.
(c) It was where snakes were killed.
(d) It was where snakes reproduce.

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

4. How does Basso say Apache see history as being?
(a) Episodic, personal, subjective, and invariable.
(b) Episodic, personal, subjective, and variable.
(c) Episodic, impersonal, subjective, and variable.
(d) Long, personal, subjective, and variable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Leslie Silko?

2. What happened to Basso's nose, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?

3. What was Charles Henry's nephew's name?

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

5. When did Edward Spicer say Western Apache would not become tribal historians?

(see the answer key)

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