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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were two of the places Basso went to explained to him as being?
(a) Place-universes.
(b) Place-planets.
(c) Place-worlds.
(d) Place-history.

2. What grants did Keith Basso receive to do his work in Indian country?
(a) The Smithsonian Institution.
(b) The Anthropological Anonymous Association.
(c) The National Science Group of Anthropology.
(d) The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

3. How old was Keith Basso in 1959?
(a) 23 years old.
(b) 17 years old.
(c) 19 years old.
(d) 24 years old.

4. How long did Basso stay at Charles Henry's house on a break, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 7 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 5 days.

5. What does Keith Basso argue our sense of place is as natural as?
(a) Our love of freedom.
(b) Breathing.
(c) Love.
(d) Culinary tastes.

6. What does Charles Henry say was tied to the places that were first created?
(a) Modern speech.
(b) Sign language.
(c) People.
(d) Ancestral speech.

7. What does Keith Basso say were in short supply?
(a) Ethnographers exploring cultural dimensions of places.
(b) Older Apache.
(c) Apache speaking elders.
(d) Apache-English dictionnary.

8. What does Keith Basso say each chapter of the book would be centered on?
(a) A different place.
(b) A different tribe.
(c) A different Apache person.
(d) A different letter.

9. What does Keith say about the name Juniper Tree Stands Alone?
(a) It was chosen by an old woman.
(b) It was the same pronunciation in Apache.
(c) It was not known why it was chosen.
(d) It was based on a story of two boys.

10. What does Keith Basso say does not have a sense of place?
(a) Individuals.
(b) Clans.
(c) Children.
(d) Cultures.

11. Who taught Charles Henry the story of Shades of Shit?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

12. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe determine it would be unwise to do?
(a) Leave the reservation before the maps were done.
(b) Sell the maps to non-Apache.
(c) Hire Charles Henry.
(d) Publish Keith's map.

13. Who founded the project that the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggested to Keith Basso?
(a) The National Ethnology Foundation.
(b) The National Sociology Foundation.
(c) The National Science Foundation.
(d) The National Map Foundation.

14. What was Satre, according to Keith Basso?
(a) A good ethnographer.
(b) A captivating anti-hero.
(c) A modern author.
(d) A modern philosopher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charles decide to stop working for Basso?

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

3. What was Snakes' Water named for?

4. How old was Charles Henry at the time the book was written?

5. What does Keith Basso say the human attachments to places remain?

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