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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the people talking about the ill brother use the place-names for?

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

3. What did Basso's theoretical discoveries help him make a legal case for?

4. What problem does Basso say using place-names in the conversation about the brother solve?

5. Whose brother does Basso overhear became ill while visiting Lola?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Lola Machuse?

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

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

4. What do place-names generate?

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

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

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

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

9. Where is the Cibecue settlement located?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine cultural constructions discussed by Basso and how they can be understood.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Western Apache theory of wisdom and how it relates to the notion of self.

Essay Topic 3

Examine how local people relate themselves to their geography and how one can understand the landscape.

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