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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Charles Henry at the time the book was written?
(a) 65 years old.
(b) 60 years old.
(c) 40 years old.
(d) 62 years old.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Keith Basso say the Apache constructions of place reach deeply into?
(a) Their memory.
(b) Their appreaciation of wisdom.
(c) Other cultural spheres.
(d) The mind.

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

11. What is the translation of the name of the place Basso and Charles Henry were at?
(a) Dead Old Woman Sleeping.
(b) Small flowers Became Big.
(c) River Going Down Between Valley.
(d) Water Lies With Mud In An Open Container.

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

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

14. What does Keith Basso say must be lived as well?
(a) The stories.
(b) The elder's life.
(c) Locally produced plays.
(d) Locally imagined history.

15. What was Satre, according to Keith Basso?
(a) A captivating anti-hero.
(b) A good ethnographer.
(c) A modern philosopher.
(d) A modern author.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many places did the three men travel, according to Chapter 1?

2. What does Keith Basso argue our sense of place is as natural as?

3. What happened to Basso's nose, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?

4. Who founded the project that the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggested to Keith Basso?

5. What were the Apaches looking for that named the place Basso and Charles Henry were at?

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