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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 were two of the places Basso went to explained to him as being?
(a) Place-planets.
(b) Place-universes.
(c) Place-worlds.
(d) Place-history.

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

3. Who was Leslie Silko?
(a) An Indian author.
(b) A modern author.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A woman lawyer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say the maps looked like in mid-July?

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

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

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

5. What does Keith Basso say ethnographers have few of to follow?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does sense of place involve?

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

4. What did Charles downplay about Basso?

5. What does Basso say happens when we lose our place, in the "Preface"?

6. Why did Basso speak with local consultants?

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

8. What were many anthropologists hesitant to focus on, according to Basso?

9. How do the Western Apache see Anglo-American history according to Basso?

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

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