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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggest Keith Basso do?
(a) To become the tribe lawyer.
(b) Leave his land.
(c) Create a dictionary.
(d) A map of the land of his tribe.

2. What is the first question asked in the "Preface"?
(a) Why do we exist?
(b) Who are Apache?
(c) What do people live for?
(d) What do people make of place?

3. What does Charles Henry say was tied to the places that were first created?
(a) Ancestral speech.
(b) Sign language.
(c) Modern speech.
(d) People.

4. What does Keith Basso say the first question in the book is as old as?
(a) Men.
(b) The discovery of the Apache.
(c) The start of time.
(d) The idea of home.

5. Who taught Charles Henry the story of Shades of Shit?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the places does Charles Henry say were created first?

2. How many parts did the project suggested by the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe have?

3. What advice from Dudley Patterson does Keith Basso say he followed?

4. What does Keith Basso say each chapter of the book would be centered on?

5. What does Keith Basso say must be lived as well?

(see the answer key)

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