Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Keith H. Basso
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Keith Basso say the answer to the first question in the book is?
(a) Elusive.
(b) Complex.
(c) Simple.
(d) Impossible to tell.

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

4. How many years did Keith Basso say he had spent in a village of Western Apaches when he stumbled onto place-names?
(a) 16 years.
(b) 35 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 25 years.

5. What does Keith Basso say may have us feel threatened?
(a) Dangerous names.
(b) Threats to our body.
(c) Dark places.
(d) Threats to our attachment to a place.

6. What was Snakes' Water?
(a) A large snake pit.
(b) A small stream.
(c) An inactive spring.
(d) A boot factory.

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

8. How does Keith Basso describe his profession?
(a) A topologist.
(b) Ethnographer-linguists.
(c) Ethnographers.
(d) Linguists.

9. What does Keith Basso say places were creating a means of in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?
(a) People.
(b) Events.
(c) Personal worth.
(d) Historical imagination.

10. How many parts did the project suggested by the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe have?
(a) 6 parts.
(b) 3 parts.
(c) 5 parts.
(d) 7 parts.

11. What is the translation of the name of the place Basso and Charles Henry were at?
(a) Water Lies With Mud In An Open Container.
(b) Small flowers Became Big.
(c) Dead Old Woman Sleeping.
(d) River Going Down Between Valley.

12. What does Basso say the maps looked like in mid-July?
(a) Littered with shotgun pellets.
(b) A large piece of paper.
(c) A table cloth.
(d) An old blanket.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Charles Henry the story of Shades of Shit?

2. How does Basso say Apache see history as being?

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

4. What was Satre, according to Keith Basso?

5. What does Basso argue Apache are concerned with regarding events?

(see the answer keys)

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