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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must ethnographers become familiar with, according to Basso?
(a) Local dialect.
(b) Local symbolism.
(c) National symbolism.
(d) Local culture.

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

3. What does Basso say all human cultures have beliefs about?
(a) How language works.
(b) How to elect leaders.
(c) Who created them.
(d) What the sun is.

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

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

6. Where did the brother fall ill?
(a) The hospital.
(b) His home.
(c) Line of Trees Where You Fell Ill.
(d) Line of White Rocks Extends Up And Out.

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

8. What does Basso say of the conversation about the ill brother?
(a) It was joyful.
(b) It lasted all night.
(c) It was uncomfortable for everyone.
(d) It was short.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

14. At what elevation can the Cibecue settlement be found?
(a) 1,900 feet.
(b) 3,900 feet.
(c) 5,900 feet.
(d) 4,900 feet.

15. What type of events does Basso say the Apaches did not have?
(a) Roads.
(b) Placeless.
(c) Good memory.
(d) Rights to their own land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Basso say the richness of place-names comes from?

2. In what state is the Cibecue settlement?

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

4. What does speaking with names produce according to Basso?

5. What happened to people that commit immoral deeds in Cibecue's tales?

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