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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. How many places did the three men travel, according to Chapter 1?
(a) 17 places.
(b) 13 places.
(c) 12 places.
(d) 19 places.

2. What does Keith Basso say must be lived as well?
(a) Locally imagined history.
(b) Locally produced plays.
(c) The stories.
(d) The elder's life.

3. Who did Keith Basso and Charles Henry stand with in May 1979?
(a) Morley Cromwell.
(b) Jared Bott.
(c) Matt Henry.
(d) Sophie Henry.

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

5. How many years did Keith Basso say he had spent in a village of Western Apaches when he stumbled onto place-names?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 16 years.
(d) 35 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to legend, why were the owners of Shades of Shit forced to stay home?

2. What does Keith Basso say the human attachments to places remain?

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

4. What grants did Keith Basso receive to do his work in Indian country?

5. What does Keith Basso say ethnographers have few of to follow?

(see the answer key)

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