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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 does Basso say Chapter 2 focuses on?

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

3. What does Basso say all human cultures have beliefs about?

4. What happened to the girl in the story told by the group, in Chapter 3?

5. What does Basso say ecological studies cannot fully account for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do place-names generate?

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

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

4. Why has Basso used Apache conceptions of land?

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

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

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

8. Where is the Cibecue settlement located?

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

10. What was the story of the Line of White Rocks Extends Up and Out?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the hunting metaphor used in "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how cultures preserve their history and examine Edward Spicer's argument that despite a love of their history, Western Apaches would not become tribal historians.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the social implications of using place-names as discussed by Basso.

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