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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the translation of the name of the place Basso and Charles Henry were at?
(a) Dead Old Woman Sleeping.
(b) Water Lies With Mud In An Open Container.
(c) Small flowers Became Big.
(d) River Going Down Between Valley.

2. What was Keith Basso's mother's name?
(a) Etolia S. Basso.
(b) Sophie S. Basso.
(c) Lila S. Basso.
(d) Margarette S. Basso.

3. What grants did Keith Basso receive to do his work in Indian country?
(a) The Smithsonian Institution.
(b) The National Science Group of Anthropology.
(c) The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
(d) The Anthropological Anonymous Association.

4. What subtle element does Keith Basso say would assert the sense of place?
(a) A friend.
(b) A green door.
(c) An absent smell.
(d) A memory.

5. What does Keith Basso say may have us feel threatened?
(a) Dark places.
(b) Dangerous names.
(c) Threats to our body.
(d) Threats to our attachment to a place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Satre, according to Keith Basso?

2. What does Keith Basso say was easy even without a written history?

3. When did Charles decide to stop working for Basso?

4. How long did Basso stay at Charles Henry's house on a break, in "Chapter 1, Quoting the Ancestors"?

5. Who said, "Wherever things look bright"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How to the Western Apache see knowledge of place?

2. Who did Basso receive a grant from?

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

4. In what cultures does place-making occur?

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

6. What does place-making help construct?

7. What was the status of the maps as of mid-July?

8. What was the story behind Snakes' Water?

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

10. How do the Western Apache see Anglo-American history according to Basso?

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