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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to the girl in the story told by the group, in Chapter 3?
(a) She was bitten by a snake.
(b) She ate a dead horse.
(c) She was stung by a bee.
(d) She ate a berry.

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

4. What happened to people that commit immoral deeds in Cibecue's tales?
(a) They won.
(b) They lost respect in themselves.
(c) They were humiliated, exiled, or killed.
(d) They learned from their mistakes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the people speaking of the ill brother construct, according to Basso?

3. How does Basso describe the discussion between the group and the woman whose brother was sick?

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

5. When did Basso leave Cibecue in 1981?

Short Essay Questions

1. What difficulty do linguists have with Western Apache?

2. What does Basso claim about the Apache understanding of communication?

3. What does the land make people do, according to the Western Apache?

4. What looks after the Western Apache, according to Basso?

5. What happened at the end of the summer of 1981?

6. Where is the Cibecue settlement located?

7. What do place-names generate?

8. How do local peoples relate to their geography?

9. What must ethnographers be cautious of, in "Chapter 3, Speaking With Names?"

10. How can one understand the landscape according to Basso?

(see the answer keys)

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