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

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

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

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

5. How many years did Keith Basso say he had spent in a village of Western Apaches when he stumbled onto place-names?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 16 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 35 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many articles does Keith say he wrote on the place he visited in 1959?

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

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

4. What subtle element does Keith Basso say would assert the sense of place?

5. How long did Basso stay at Charles Henry's house on a break, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Basso speak with local consultants?

2. What was the status of the maps as of mid-July?

3. How was the book divided, according to the "Preface?"

4. What did Charles downplay about Basso?

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

6. What does sense of place involve?

7. What did part of Basso's research involve?

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

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

10. Who was Charles Henry?

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