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

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

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

4. What does Basso say ethnographers immersed in a foreign culture with a foreign language must be cautious and understanding of, in "Chapter 3, Speaking With Names"?
(a) "External realities are created from national concepts."
(b) "External realities are created from cultural concepts."
(c) "External realities are destroyed by cultural concepts."
(d) "Internal realities are created from cultural concepts."

5. What does Basso say infiltrated Western Apache society?
(a) Coal fired power plants.
(b) American culture.
(c) IRS agents.
(d) Casinos.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Basso leave Cibecue in 1981?

2. What do children become that do not not learn to tie places and names with historical tales?

3. What does Basso say of the residents of Cibecue?

4. How many forms of speech did the Cibecue have?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How can cultural constructions be understood, according to Basso?

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

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

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

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

6. Who was Lola Machuse?

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

8. What does "speaking with names" illustrate?

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

10. How do local peoples relate to their geography?

(see the answer keys)

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