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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do children become that do not not learn to tie places and names with historical tales?
(a) Less moral.
(b) Intellectualy limited.
(c) More moral.
(d) Bankers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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) They usually don't remember.
(d) The story needs to change to stay entertaining.

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

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

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

13. How did the brother became ill?
(a) He was stung by bees.
(b) He ate mushrooms.
(c) He touched a snake skin.
(d) He was bitten by a rat.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Lola Machuse in the book?

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

3. What does Basso say of the conversation about the ill brother?

4. What does Basso say is difficult for linguists to explain?

5. 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"?

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