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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 does Keith Basso say ethnographers have few of to follow?

2. How old was Charles Henry at the time the book was written?

3. How do the Apache see the past, according to Basso?

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

5. What does Keith Basso say does not have a sense of place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Charles downplay about Basso?

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

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

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

5. Who was Morley Cromwell?

6. How long did Basso's project last?

7. In what cultures does place-making occur?

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

9. Why did Basso speak with local consultants?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Ronnie Lupe and his role in Basso's mapping of place-names.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the strengths Basso found in the language of the Western Apache and how it differs from other languages.

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