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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 does Basso say Chapter 2 focuses on?
(a) Spoken text of the Cibecue.
(b) Long names.
(c) Place-names meaning.
(d) Charles Henry's nephew.

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

3. What must ethnographers become familiar with, according to Basso?
(a) Local dialect.
(b) National symbolism.
(c) Local culture.
(d) Local symbolism.

4. Why couldn't Lola say that the brother did nothing wrong or openly censure him, according to Basso?
(a) She didn't know the man well enough.
(b) The sister of the ill man was candid about her pain.
(c) She didn't want to get involved.
(d) The sister of the ill man was her friend.

5. What does Basso say can only be studied through the property names and place-naming?
(a) History.
(b) Shared meanings and geographies.
(c) Shared meanings and local rivers.
(d) Shared histoy and geographies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say of the conversation about the ill brother?

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

3. Who does Basso say were often concerned with the connection between American Indian communities and their ecological settings?

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"?

5. What was Nick just recovering from in 1981, according to Basso?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does "speaking with names" illustrate?

5. What happens to children who do not learn to tie places and names?

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

7. Who was Lola Machuse?

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

9. How do local peoples relate to their geography?

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

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