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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. What did Basso use to explain the effect of symbolism on individuals?
(a) Apache conceptions of history.
(b) Apache conceptions of water.
(c) Apache conceptions of people.
(d) Apache conceptions of land.

2. What does Basso say ecological studies cannot fully account for?
(a) How people interacted with nature.
(b) How Apache did not kill all the rattlesnakes.
(c) How individuals make and act on cultural meanings.
(d) How animals reproduce.

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

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

5. 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 father.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the brother became ill?

2. When did Nick Thompson claim to have been born?

3. What must ethnographers become familiar with, according to Basso?

4. What does Basso say cannot give a full explanation of the connection between American Indian communities and their ecological settings?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nick Thompson encourage Basso to do in June 1980, and what did Nick maintain about the Western Apache?

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

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

4. What difficulty do linguists have with Western Apache?

5. What do younger Apache feel about village life, according to Basso?

6. What was the story of the Line of White Rocks Extends Up and Out?

7. What do place-names generate?

8. Who was Lola Machuse?

9. What happened to Louise's brother, and what did the Apaches say?

10. How do local peoples relate to their geography?

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