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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Snakes' Water?

2. How many years did Keith Basso say he had spent in a village of Western Apaches when he stumbled onto place-names?

3. Who founded the project that the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggested to Keith Basso?

4. What does Keith Basso say places are a part of?

5. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggest Keith Basso do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How long did Basso's project last?

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

4. What did Charles downplay about Basso?

5. When did Keith Basso first visit Cibecue, and what did he do after graduate school?

6. What did Chairman Lupe consider unwise?

7. Why did Basso speak with local consultants?

8. In what cultures does place-making occur?

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

10. Who was Charles Henry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and define the role of anthropology and ethnography in studying and preserving native cultures.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how industrialism changed the Western Apache in Cibecue.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of Nick Thompson in Basso's study of place names.

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