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

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

3. What does Basso say all human cultures have beliefs about?
(a) How language works.
(b) Who created them.
(c) What the sun is.
(d) How to elect leaders.

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

5. What were Western Apaches increasingly emphasizing, according to Basso?
(a) The importance of the land.
(b) The worth of their land.
(c) The importance of good lawyers.
(d) The importance of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't the Apache be too specific when telling a story, according to Basso?

2. What do sagas focus on?

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

4. Where did the story told by Emily happen?

5. What does Basso say Lola did when she revealed where the brother fell ill?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do local peoples relate to their geography?

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

3. What do place-names generate?

4. What is the strength of the Western Apache, according to Basso?

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

6. Where is the Cibecue settlement located?

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

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

9. What does "speaking with names" illustrate?

10. What is a distinct characteristic of the Western Apache, according to Basso?

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