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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Basso say is difficult for linguists to explain?
(a) How to translate Apache.
(b) The relation between Navajo and Apache languages.
(c) The sequentiality of utterances.
(d) How Apache language evolved.

7. In what state is the Cibecue settlement?
(a) Montana.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Arizona.

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

9. When did Nick Thompson claim to have been born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1912.

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

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

12. What did Basso's theoretical discoveries help him make a legal case for?
(a) Western Apache election rights.
(b) Western Apache land rights.
(c) Western Apache casino rights.
(d) Western Apache land claims.

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

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

15. What problem does Basso say using place-names in the conversation about the brother solve?
(a) The need to lie.
(b) The need to speak the truth.
(c) The need to judge him.
(d) The need to be nice to his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do tales force individuals to do?

2. What were Western Apaches increasingly emphasizing, according to Basso?

3. What does Basso say ecological studies cannot fully account for?

4. What was Nick just recovering from in 1981, according to Basso?

5. What does Basso say generated a wide range of cognitive associations?

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