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

2. How does Basso say the Apache understand communication?
(a) Cooperatively.
(b) As a way to pass judgements.
(c) As a language.
(d) As a way to tell stories.

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

4. What did the people speaking of the ill brother construct, according to Basso?
(a) A mild form of envy.
(b) A mild form of reprimand.
(c) A mild form of praise.
(d) A strong form of reprimand.

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

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

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

8. 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 wish for his speedy recovery.
(d) To quiet her down.

9. 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 best friend.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her grandmother.

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

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

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

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

14. Whose brother does Basso overhear became ill while visiting Lola?
(a) Louise's.
(b) Martha's.
(c) Sophie's.
(d) Lola's.

15. When does "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories" start?
(a) June 1982.
(b) June 1981.
(c) June 1984.
(d) June 1980.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Basso say is used to expand the imagination?

3. What does Basso say the enforcement of norms occurs through for the Cibecue?

4. What happened to the girl in the story told by the group, in Chapter 3?

5. What did Lola provide Basso that allowed him to understand the conversation about the ill brother?

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