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

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

3. 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 cultural concepts."
(b) "Internal realities are created from cultural concepts."
(c) "External realities are created from national concepts."
(d) "External realities are destroyed by cultural concepts."

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

5. What does Basso say cannot give a full explanation of the connection between American Indian communities and their ecological settings?
(a) Materialist models.
(b) Anthropomorphic models.
(c) City dwelling models.
(d) American models.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say the place-names were used for by the woman whose brother was ill?

2. What does Basso say ecological studies focus on?

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

4. Where did the brother fall ill?

5. What did the girl in the story learn from her misfortune?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Lola Machuse?

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

5. What difficulty do linguists have with Western Apache?

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

7. What does Basso advise people to pay attention to, in "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories?"

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

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

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

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