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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Basso say the Apache understand communication?
(a) Cooperatively.
(b) As a way to pass judgements.
(c) As a way to tell stories.
(d) As a language.

2. What does Nick say Apache stories were made for?
(a) To humiliate.
(b) To make an impression on the individual.
(c) To put to sleep.
(d) To entertain.

3. 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) "Internal realities are created from cultural concepts."
(b) "External realities are created from national concepts."
(c) "External realities are destroyed by cultural concepts."
(d) "External realities are created from cultural concepts."

4. How many major genres did Cibecue narratives have?
(a) 2 major genres.
(b) 4 major genres.
(c) 5 major genres.
(d) 7 major genres.

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

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

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

8. What does Basso say can only be studied through the property names and place-naming?
(a) Shared meanings and geographies.
(b) Shared meanings and local rivers.
(c) History.
(d) Shared histoy and geographies.

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

10. What does Basso say the story might have been?
(a) An elaborate insurance scam.
(b) The truth.
(c) A lie.
(d) Misinterpreted.

11. What does Basso say the enforcement of norms occurs through for the Cibecue?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Parents.
(c) Stories.
(d) Language.

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

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

14. What do younger Apache find village life to be?
(a) Tedious.
(b) A good place to live.
(c) Fun.
(d) A place to worship.

15. What does Basso say nearly all the place-names are in the Western Apache Language?
(a) Long.
(b) Complete sentences.
(c) Cryptic.
(d) Without meaning.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Basso says that tales merge elements of _____?

5. Where did the brother fall ill?

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