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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 Science Foundation.
(c) The National Sociology Foundation.
(d) The National Map Foundation.

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

4. What does Keith Basso say ethnographers thought of places?
(a) They over simplified them.
(b) They took them for granted.
(c) They ignored them.
(d) They studied them slowly.

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

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

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

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

9. What was Juniper Tree Stands Alone?
(a) A forest.
(b) A flat area containing houses.
(c) A river.
(d) A sandy area.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Charles Henry decide to stop working for Basso?

2. How does Keith Basso describe his profession?

3. What does Keith say about the name Juniper Tree Stands Alone?

4. What is the first question asked in the "Preface"?

5. What does Basso say names of places tended to indicate?

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