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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 25 years.
(d) 15 years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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 started talking in English only.
(d) He tried to teach Basso Apache basics.

9. Who does Keith Basso say was the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe?
(a) Ronnie Lupe.
(b) Lisa Amaton.
(c) Lila Starpon.
(d) Mick Pstum.

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

11. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggest Keith Basso do?
(a) Leave his land.
(b) A map of the land of his tribe.
(c) Create a dictionary.
(d) To become the tribe lawyer.

12. Why did Charles Henry decide to stop working for Basso?
(a) He needed to drive cattle.
(b) He needed to go on a retreat.
(c) He needed to make medicine.
(d) He needed to make money.

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

14. What is the first question asked in the "Preface"?
(a) Who are Apache?
(b) What do people live for?
(c) What do people make of place?
(d) Why do we exist?

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was Charles Henry's nephew's name?

4. Who were the Apache hiding from, according to Keith?

5. What grants did Keith Basso receive to do his work in Indian country?

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