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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 best friend.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her grandmother.

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

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

4. What do children become that do not not learn to tie places and names with historical tales?
(a) Less moral.
(b) Bankers.
(c) More moral.
(d) Intellectualy limited.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say infiltrated Western Apache society?

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

3. What did Basso use to explain the effect of symbolism on individuals?

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

5. What does Nick say Apache stories were made for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Basso think the Western Apache emphasize the importance of the land?

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

3. What difficulty do linguists have with Western Apache?

4. Why has Basso used Apache conceptions of land?

5. What can't materialist models not give an explanation of?

6. Where is the Cibecue settlement located?

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

8. How do local peoples relate to their geography?

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

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

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