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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. Who does Keith Basso say worked for years in community where ties to places were vital?

2. Who were the Apache hiding from, according to Keith?

3. How many areas did Basso and his group chart?

4. What place does Keith Basso say he visited in the summer 1959?

5. Who did Keith Basso and Charles Henry stand with in May 1979?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does sense of place involve?

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

4. For the Western Apache, how is history a narrative art?

5. Who was Morley Cromwell?

6. Who did Basso receive a grant from?

7. In what cultures does place-making occur?

8. Why did Basso speak with local consultants?

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

10. What was the story behind Snakes' Water?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Western Apache theory of wisdom and how it relates to the notion of self.

Essay Topic 2

Examine how children who do not learn to tie places and names with historical tales are affected.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of the ethnographer when immersed in a foreign culture with a foreign language.

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