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

2. How does Keith Basso describe his profession?
(a) Linguists.
(b) A topologist.
(c) Ethnographer-linguists.
(d) Ethnographers.

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) They refused to share their toilet.
(d) It was snowing.

4. What does Keith Basso argue our sense of place is as natural as?
(a) Culinary tastes.
(b) Our love of freedom.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso argue Apache are concerned with regarding events?

2. What was Satre, according to Keith Basso?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Charles downplay about Basso?

4. Why did Basso speak with local consultants?

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

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

7. In what cultures does place-making occur?

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

9. How long did Basso's project last?

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

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