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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many articles does Keith say he wrote on the place he visited in 1959?
(a) 6 articles.
(b) 8 articles.
(c) 1 article.
(d) 5 articles.

2. 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.

3. Where was Basso's bitten by the centipede?
(a) His leg.
(b) His head.
(c) His foot.
(d) His hand.

4. What does Keith Basso say places are a part of?
(a) Maps.
(b) Us.
(c) Society.
(d) The landscape.

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

6. What did Charles Henry use to downplay the tension during his trip with Basso?
(a) His missing teeth made pronunciation difficult.
(b) He made a joke.
(c) He tried to teach Basso Apache basics.
(d) He started talking in English only.

7. What does Keith Basso say was easy even without a written history?
(a) Creating compelling stories.
(b) Making stories up.
(c) Reinterpreting the past.
(d) Imagining the past.

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

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

10. 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.

11. Who did Keith Basso and Charles Henry stand with in May 1979?
(a) Jared Bott.
(b) Morley Cromwell.
(c) Matt Henry.
(d) Sophie Henry.

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

13. Who was Leslie Silko?
(a) A modern author.
(b) A woman lawyer.
(c) An Indian author.
(d) A doctor.

14. How many areas did Basso and his group chart?
(a) 105.
(b) 119.
(c) 209.
(d) 109.

15. Who was the local clan leader of the Juniper Tree Stands Alone, at the time of Basso's project?
(a) Charles Henry.
(b) Melisa Maris.
(c) Ellen Josay Tessay.
(d) Markus Write.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Keith say about the name Juniper Tree Stands Alone?

2. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe determine it would be unwise to do?

3. What does Basso argue history is for the Western Apache?

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

5. What does Basso say names of places tended to indicate?

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