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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Speaking With Names.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Basso say ethnographers immersed in a foreign culture with a foreign language must be cautious and understanding of, in "Chapter 3, Speaking With Names"?
(a) "External realities are destroyed by cultural concepts."
(b) "Internal realities are created from cultural concepts."
(c) "External realities are created from cultural concepts."
(d) "External realities are created from national concepts."

2. What does Basso say historical tales are often about?
(a) The person they are told to.
(b) The clan.
(c) Stories of miseries.
(d) The person that tells them.

3. What do tales force individuals to do?
(a) Admit social failings.
(b) Exile themselves.
(c) Have fun.
(d) Kill themselves.

4. What was Juniper Tree Stands Alone?
(a) A forest.
(b) A flat area containing houses.
(c) A sandy area.
(d) A river.

5. What did the girl in the story learn from her misfortune?
(a) To act rightly.
(b) Not to eat mushrooms.
(c) To trust the elders.
(d) To learn from her mistakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Basso say the strength of the Apache language comes from?

2. What type of events does Basso say the Apaches did not have?

3. What happened to people that commit immoral deeds in Cibecue's tales?

4. What does Basso say cannot give a full explanation of the connection between American Indian communities and their ecological settings?

5. Whose brother does Basso overhear became ill while visiting Lola?

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