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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Basso argue Spicer judges the Apache with?
(a) Third world standards.
(b) Backward standards.
(c) American standards.
(d) Western Standards.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Snakes' Water?

2. How old was Keith Basso in 1959?

3. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggest Keith Basso do?

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

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

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