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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Charles decide to stop working for Basso?
(a) Second day of August.
(b) Second week of August.
(c) Second day of June.
(d) Third day of August.

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

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

4. According to legend, why were the owners of Shades of Shit forced to stay home?
(a) It was snowing.
(b) They refused to share their corn.
(c) It was raining.
(d) They refused to share their toilet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Keith Basso's project take?

2. What does Keith Basso say may have us feel threatened?

3. What did Charles Henry use to downplay the tension during his trip with Basso?

4. What does Keith Basso say were in short supply?

5. What does Keith Basso say places were creating a means of in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does place-making help construct?

2. How to the Western Apache see knowledge of place?

3. What did Chairman Lupe consider unwise?

4. Who was Morley Cromwell?

5. What happened to Basso on a Saturday in late June?

6. Why did Basso speak with local consultants?

7. In what cultures does place-making occur?

8. What does Basso say must happen with locally imagined history, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?

9. What does each chapter of Wisdom Sits in Places focus on and why?

10. What was the story behind Snakes' Water?

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