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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Markus Write.
(d) Ellen Josay Tessay.

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

3. Who founded the project that the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggested to Keith Basso?
(a) The National Ethnology Foundation.
(b) The National Map Foundation.
(c) The National Science Foundation.
(d) The National Sociology Foundation.

4. What does Keith Basso say were in short supply?
(a) Ethnographers exploring cultural dimensions of places.
(b) Apache-English dictionnary.
(c) Apache speaking elders.
(d) Older Apache.

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

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

7. What was Snakes' Water?
(a) A large snake pit.
(b) A boot factory.
(c) A small stream.
(d) An inactive spring.

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

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

10. What does Basso say the maps looked like in mid-July?
(a) An old blanket.
(b) A table cloth.
(c) Littered with shotgun pellets.
(d) A large piece of paper.

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

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

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

14. What does Basso argue Apache are concerned with regarding events?
(a) Where they occured.
(b) What lessons can be learned.
(c) When they occured.
(d) Who was present.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Keith Basso say the human attachments to places remain?

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

3. How many areas did Basso and his group chart?

4. Where was Basso's bitten by the centipede?

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

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