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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 Western Apache discourse is a product of?
(a) Interlocking utterances and actions.
(b) Utterance and inaction.
(c) Stories.
(d) Inative syllables.

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

3. What was Nick's comment as Basso left Cibecue?
(a) "Your work is invaluable."
(b) "You are a good friend."
(c) "I cannot work for you next season."
(d) "Goodness is all around Cibecue."

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

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

6. How many forms of speech did the Cibecue have?
(a) 3 forms.
(b) 6 forms.
(c) 7 forms.
(d) 5 forms.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. How old was Lola Machuse in the book?
(a) 63 years old.
(b) 61 years old.
(c) 60 years old.
(d) 62 years old.

13. What does Basso say cannot give a full explanation of the connection between American Indian communities and their ecological settings?
(a) City dwelling models.
(b) Materialist models.
(c) American models.
(d) Anthropomorphic models.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say to pay attention to, in "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories"?

2. What does Basso say ecological studies focus on?

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

4. What does Nick say Apache stories were made for?

5. Who did Nick Thompson claim needed printed maps?

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