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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who founded the project that the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe suggested to Keith Basso?
(a) The National Ethnology Foundation.
(b) The National Sociology Foundation.
(c) The National Science Foundation.
(d) The National Map Foundation.

2. How many parts did the project suggested by the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe have?
(a) 5 parts.
(b) 3 parts.
(c) 6 parts.
(d) 7 parts.

3. When did Charles decide to stop working for Basso?
(a) Second day of August.
(b) Second day of June.
(c) Second week of August.
(d) Third day of August.

4. What does Keith Basso say the human attachments to places remain?
(a) An understudied field.
(b) An enigma.
(c) A disputed field.
(d) A well documented fact.

5. What does Keith Basso say the Apache constructions of place reach deeply into?
(a) Their memory.
(b) Their appreaciation of wisdom.
(c) The mind.
(d) Other cultural spheres.

6. What were the Apaches looking for that named the place Basso and Charles Henry were at?
(a) A place to plant their crop.
(b) A place to build a temple.
(c) A place to bury their dead.
(d) A safe place to settle.

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

8. What does Basso argue history is for the Western Apache?
(a) Taught by the elders.
(b) A craft.
(c) Worthy of songs.
(d) Irrelevant.

9. Who were the Apache hiding from, according to Keith?
(a) The Anasazis.
(b) The Navajo.
(c) The Iroquois.
(d) The Shenooks.

10. How long did Basso stay at Charles Henry's house on a break, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 6 days.
(d) 7 days.

11. How old was Charles Henry at the time the book was written?
(a) 40 years old.
(b) 65 years old.
(c) 62 years old.
(d) 60 years old.

12. What does Basso say names of places tended to indicate?
(a) A smaller clan.
(b) Wetter climates in early generations.
(c) A good imagination
(d) A larger population.

13. Who was the local clan leader of the Juniper Tree Stands Alone, at the time of Basso's project?
(a) Charles Henry.
(b) Melisa Maris.
(c) Markus Write.
(d) Ellen Josay Tessay.

14. What did the chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe determine it would be unwise to do?
(a) Hire Charles Henry.
(b) Sell the maps to non-Apache.
(c) Publish Keith's map.
(d) Leave the reservation before the maps were done.

15. What were two of the places Basso went to explained to him as being?
(a) Place-worlds.
(b) Place-universes.
(c) Place-history.
(d) Place-planets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Leslie Silko?

2. What does Keith Basso say the answer to the first question in the book is?

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

4. What is the translation of the name of the place Basso and Charles Henry were at?

5. How long did Keith Basso's project take?

(see the answer keys)

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