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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did the people talking about the ill brother use the place-names for?
(a) Make conversation.
(b) Make fun of him.
(c) Comment on his moral conduct.
(d) Try to teach him a lesson.

4. When does "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories" start?
(a) June 1980.
(b) June 1984.
(c) June 1982.
(d) June 1981.

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

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

7. How long does Basso say he had known Nick Thompson?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 22 years.

8. What does Basso say almost ceased to exist in anthropology?
(a) Good professors.
(b) Studies of places.
(c) Study of the American Indian place-name systems.
(d) Field studies.

9. 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.

10. What was Nick's comment as Basso left Cibecue?
(a) "Goodness is all around Cibecue."
(b) "You are a good friend."
(c) "Your work is invaluable."
(d) "I cannot work for you next season."

11. What do sagas focus on?
(a) Fun stories.
(b) Long stories.
(c) Modern times.
(d) Ancient times.

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

13. Where does Basso say the richness of place-names comes from?
(a) How individuals always create new ones.
(b) They way they integrate with maps.
(c) The way they describe individuals.
(d) How individuals invest themselves in the landscape.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say all human cultures have beliefs about?

2. How old was Lola Machuse in the book?

3. How did the brother became ill?

4. Why couldn't Lola say that the brother did nothing wrong or openly censure him, according to Basso?

5. What must ethnographers become familiar with, according to Basso?

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