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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. What does Basso say names of places tended to indicate?
(a) A larger population.
(b) Wetter climates in early generations.
(c) A smaller clan.
(d) A good imagination

5. What does Keith Basso say one cannot do all the time, despite it being captivating?
(a) Travel.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Talk.
(d) Study.

6. What does Basso argue history is for the Western Apache?
(a) Worthy of songs.
(b) A craft.
(c) Irrelevant.
(d) Taught by the elders.

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

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

9. How do the Apache see the past, according to Basso?
(a) As a river.
(b) As a woman.
(c) As a field.
(d) As a trail.

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

11. When did Charles decide to stop working for Basso?
(a) Second week of August.
(b) Second day of June.
(c) Second day of August.
(d) Third day of August.

12. How does Basso say Apache see history as being?
(a) Long, personal, subjective, and variable.
(b) Episodic, impersonal, subjective, and variable.
(c) Episodic, personal, subjective, and invariable.
(d) Episodic, personal, subjective, and variable.

13. What were the Apaches looking for that named the place Basso and Charles Henry were at?
(a) A place to bury their dead.
(b) A place to build a temple.
(c) A safe place to settle.
(d) A place to plant their crop.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who said, "Wherever things look bright"?

3. What does Basso say the maps looked like in mid-July?

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

5. What does Basso argue Spicer judges the Apache with?

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