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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 of the residents of Cibecue?
(a) They wanted to leave.
(b) They were eager to talk with each other.
(c) They were poor.
(d) They were elderly.

2. What do the Cibecue think the land makes people?
(a) Moral.
(b) Rich.
(c) Immoral.
(d) Happy.

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

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

5. When did Basso leave Cibecue in 1981?
(a) In the winter.
(b) In the spring.
(c) In the fall.
(d) In the summer.

6. How many children did Lola Machuse have?
(a) 8 children.
(b) 5 children.
(c) 9 children.
(d) 4 children.

7. What does Basso say to pay attention to, in "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories"?
(a) The lesson the story is teaching.
(b) History.
(c) Who told the story.
(d) Claims people make about themselves.

8. What did the girl in the story learn from her misfortune?
(a) To trust the elders.
(b) Not to eat mushrooms.
(c) To act rightly.
(d) To learn from her mistakes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say nearly all the place-names are in the Western Apache Language?

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

3. How long does Basso say he had known Nick Thompson?

4. What problem does Basso say using place-names in the conversation about the brother solve?

5. Why couldn't Lola say that the brother did nothing wrong or openly censure him, according to Basso?

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