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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 wish for his speedy recovery.
(b) To hear her ancestors.
(c) To quiet her down.
(d) To complain about him.

2. How long does Basso say he had known Nick Thompson?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 22 years.

3. 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 her friend.
(b) She didn't know the man well enough.
(c) The sister of the ill man was candid about her pain.
(d) She didn't want to get involved.

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

5. Basso says that tales merge elements of _____?
(a) Time and symbols.
(b) Space and symbols.
(c) Time and space.
(d) Time, space, and symbols.

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

7. What did the woman think of her ill brother, according to Basso?
(a) He was good.
(b) He was irresponsible.
(c) He was wise.
(d) He was stupid.

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

9. What does Basso say the story might have been?
(a) An elaborate insurance scam.
(b) The truth.
(c) A lie.
(d) Misinterpreted.

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

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

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

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

14. 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 dead horse.
(d) She ate a berry.

15. Where did the story told by Emily happen?
(a) Whiteness Spreads Out Descending To Water.
(b) Where the Trees Grow.
(c) Green Pasture Where Horses Drink.
(d) Utha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say infiltrated Western Apache society?

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

3. What are sagas meant for?

4. What do the Cibecue think the land makes people?

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

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