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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Wisdom Sits in Places, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Dudley fall off his horse, according to Basso?
(a) June 15, 1982.
(b) June 16, 1982.
(c) June 15, 1983.
(d) July 15, 1982.

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

3. Where does Basso say the richness of place-names comes from?
(a) How individuals invest themselves in the landscape.
(b) They way they integrate with maps.
(c) How individuals always create new ones.
(d) The way they describe individuals.

4. What type of events does Basso say the Apaches did not have?
(a) Placeless.
(b) Roads.
(c) Rights to their own land.
(d) Good memory.

5. What does Basso say all human cultures have beliefs about?
(a) Who created them.
(b) How to elect leaders.
(c) What the sun is.
(d) How language works.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dudley and the other Apache men use the story of the two girls?

2. How does Basso describe the discussion between the group and the woman whose brother was sick?

3. What did Basso realize about the Apache concept of wisdom, after his conversation with Dudley?

4. When did Basso leave Cibecue in 1981?

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

(see the answer key)

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