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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Lola Machuse in the book?
(a) 60 years old.
(b) 62 years old.
(c) 63 years old.
(d) 61 years old.

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

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

4. What does Basso say generated a wide range of cognitive associations?
(a) Place-names.
(b) History.
(c) Stories.
(d) Sagas.

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

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

7. What does Basso say of the residents of Cibecue?
(a) They were poor.
(b) They were eager to talk with each other.
(c) They wanted to leave.
(d) They were elderly.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Basso say to pay attention to, in "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories"?
(a) The lesson the story is teaching.
(b) History.
(c) Who told the story.
(d) Claims people make about themselves.

13. What does Basso say Chapter 2 focuses on?
(a) Place-names meaning.
(b) Charles Henry's nephew.
(c) Long names.
(d) Spoken text of the Cibecue.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do younger Apache find village life to be?

2. What do children become that do not not learn to tie places and names with historical tales?

3. Who told the story, to the girl on her birthday, of the Apache policeman that acted like a white man?

4. At what elevation can the Cibecue settlement be found?

5. How does Basso say the Apache understand communication?

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