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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does speaking with names produce according to Basso?
(a) Stories.
(b) Better memory.
(c) Large sentences.
(d) A mental image.

2. How does Basso describe the discussion between the group and the woman whose brother was sick?
(a) Clear.
(b) Meaningless.
(c) Cryptic.
(d) Casual.

3. Who does Basso say were often concerned with the connection between American Indian communities and their ecological settings?
(a) Apaches.
(b) Scholars.
(c) Ecologists.
(d) Anthropologists.

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

5. What happened to people that commit immoral deeds in Cibecue's tales?
(a) They learned from their mistakes.
(b) They lost respect in themselves.
(c) They won.
(d) They were humiliated, exiled, or killed.

6. What are the major narrative genres divided by?
(a) Time and place.
(b) Time and purpose.
(c) People and place.
(d) Purpose and people.

7. Who did Nick Thompson claim needed printed maps?
(a) Navajo.
(b) White men.
(c) Apache.
(d) Women.

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

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

10. Basso says that tales merge elements of _____?
(a) Space and symbols.
(b) Time and space.
(c) Time and symbols.
(d) Time, space, and symbols.

11. What does Basso say infiltrated Western Apache society?
(a) American culture.
(b) Coal fired power plants.
(c) Casinos.
(d) IRS agents.

12. What did Lola provide Basso that allowed him to understand the conversation about the ill brother?
(a) Access to the hospital.
(b) A picture of the brother.
(c) Police reports.
(d) Some background references.

13. What did the sister of the ill man say after Robert's intervention?
(a) That her dad was as stupid.
(b) That she loved him.
(c) That nothing more needed to be said.
(d) That he would be missed.

14. In what state is the Cibecue settlement?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Montana.
(d) New Mexico.

15. What does Basso say ecological studies cannot fully account for?
(a) How individuals make and act on cultural meanings.
(b) How animals reproduce.
(c) How people interacted with nature.
(d) How Apache did not kill all the rattlesnakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say generated a wide range of cognitive associations?

2. How many forms of speech did the Cibecue have?

3. When does "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories" start?

4. Where did the brother fall ill?

5. What was Nick's comment as Basso left Cibecue?

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