Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache Test | Final Test - Easy

Keith H. Basso
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are sagas meant for?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Relaxation.
(c) Humiliation.
(d) Discipline.

2. What were Western Apaches increasingly emphasizing, according to Basso?
(a) The worth of their land.
(b) The importance of good lawyers.
(c) The importance of money.
(d) The importance of the land.

3. Where does Basso say the strength of the Apache language comes from?
(a) Interlocking of many levels of abstract.
(b) Its utterances.
(c) The women sotires.
(d) The absance of vowels.

4. Why couldn't Lola say that the brother did nothing wrong or openly censure him, according to Basso?
(a) She didn't know the man well enough.
(b) She didn't want to get involved.
(c) The sister of the ill man was her friend.
(d) The sister of the ill man was candid about her pain.

5. What does Basso say Chapter 2 focuses on?
(a) Charles Henry's nephew.
(b) Place-names meaning.
(c) Spoken text of the Cibecue.
(d) Long names.

6. What does Basso say the Western Apache discourse is a product of?
(a) Inative syllables.
(b) Utterance and inaction.
(c) Stories.
(d) Interlocking utterances and actions.

7. What does Basso say is used to expand the imagination?
(a) History.
(b) Smoke tents.
(c) Landscape.
(d) Pow Wows.

8. What happened to the girl in the story told by the group, in Chapter 3?
(a) She was bitten by a snake.
(b) She was stung by a bee.
(c) She ate a berry.
(d) She ate a dead horse.

9. What does Basso say cannot give a full explanation of the connection between American Indian communities and their ecological settings?
(a) American models.
(b) Anthropomorphic models.
(c) City dwelling models.
(d) Materialist models.

10. What did Basso use to explain the effect of symbolism on individuals?
(a) Apache conceptions of people.
(b) Apache conceptions of history.
(c) Apache conceptions of water.
(d) Apache conceptions of land.

11. What was Nick just recovering from in 1981, according to Basso?
(a) Back surgery.
(b) The flu.
(c) A broken arm.
(d) Paralysis.

12. Why can't the Apache be too specific when telling a story, according to Basso?
(a) The story needs to change to stay entertaining.
(b) They usually don't remember.
(c) Each person has its own story.
(d) It crowds the hearer's ability to cooperate.

13. What does Basso say ecological studies focus on?
(a) Systemic level.
(b) The plants.
(c) The planet.
(d) Pollution.

14. What does Basso say Robert emphasized?
(a) "Learning from one's mistake is hardly a human trait."
(b) "He will learn from his mistake."
(c) "Pleasantness and goodness will be forthcoming."
(d) "He will get better with time."

15. What does Basso say is difficult for linguists to explain?
(a) How Apache language evolved.
(b) The relation between Navajo and Apache languages.
(c) How to translate Apache.
(d) The sequentiality of utterances.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say the place-names were used for by the woman whose brother was ill?

2. What does Basso say almost ceased to exist in anthropology?

3. When did Nick Thompson claim to have been born?

4. Basso says that tales merge elements of _____?

5. Who did Nick Thompson claim needed printed maps?

(see the answer keys)

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