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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Basso say the place-names were used for by the woman whose brother was ill?
(a) To quiet her down.
(b) To wish for his speedy recovery.
(c) To complain about him.
(d) To hear her ancestors.

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

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

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

6. Who told the story, to the girl on her birthday, of the Apache policeman that acted like a white man?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her best friend.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her father.

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

8. What do the Cibecue think the land makes people?
(a) Moral.
(b) Happy.
(c) Immoral.
(d) Rich.

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

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

11. How many children did Lola Machuse have?
(a) 4 children.
(b) 9 children.
(c) 8 children.
(d) 5 children.

12. 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) How individuals invest themselves in the landscape.
(d) The way they describe individuals.

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

14. What did Basso use to explain the effect of symbolism on individuals?
(a) Apache conceptions of water.
(b) Apache conceptions of land.
(c) Apache conceptions of people.
(d) Apache conceptions of history.

15. Why couldn't Lola say that the brother did nothing wrong or openly censure him, according to Basso?
(a) The sister of the ill man was candid about her pain.
(b) She didn't want to get involved.
(c) She didn't know the man well enough.
(d) The sister of the ill man was her friend.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the major narrative genres divided by?

3. When did Basso leave Cibecue in 1981?

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

5. What did Basso's theoretical discoveries help him make a legal case for?

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