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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice from Dudley Patterson does Keith Basso say he followed?
(a) He wrote a book.
(b) He left.
(c) He slept.
(d) He learned.

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

3. What does Keith Basso say of the sociology of Goffman?
(a) It was accurate.
(b) It was simple.
(c) It was eccentric.
(d) It was dismissive.

4. 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.

5. What was Charles Henry's nephew's name?
(a) Joe.
(b) Jason.
(c) Mark.
(d) Thomas.

6. What was Keith Basso's mother's name?
(a) Etolia S. Basso.
(b) Margarette S. Basso.
(c) Lila S. Basso.
(d) Sophie S. Basso.

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

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

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

10. What does Keith Basso say ethnographers have few of to follow?
(a) Intellectual maps.
(b) Raw models.
(c) Field professors.
(d) Step by step books.

11. What subtle element does Keith Basso say would assert the sense of place?
(a) A memory.
(b) A friend.
(c) An absent smell.
(d) A green door.

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

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

14. How long did Keith Basso's project take?
(a) 24 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 12 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long did Basso stay at Charles Henry's house on a break, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?

3. What does Keith Basso say the sense of place is a possession of?

4. What was Snakes' Water?

5. Why did Charles Henry decide to stop working for Basso?

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