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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the major narrative genres divided by?
(a) People and place.
(b) Time and purpose.
(c) Time and place.
(d) Purpose and people.

2. What problem does Basso say using place-names in the conversation about the brother solve?
(a) The need to be nice to his sister.
(b) The need to speak the truth.
(c) The need to judge him.
(d) The need to lie.

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

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

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

6. When did Nick Thompson claim to have been born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1912.

7. What do younger Apache find village life to be?
(a) A place to worship.
(b) A good place to live.
(c) Fun.
(d) Tedious.

8. In what state is the Cibecue settlement?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Montana.
(d) Arizona.

9. When does "Chapter 2, Stalking with Stories" start?
(a) June 1984.
(b) June 1980.
(c) June 1981.
(d) June 1982.

10. What does Basso say ecological studies focus on?
(a) Systemic level.
(b) The planet.
(c) Pollution.
(d) The plants.

11. What did the sister of the ill man say after Robert's intervention?
(a) That he would be missed.
(b) That she loved him.
(c) That nothing more needed to be said.
(d) That her dad was as stupid.

12. What does Basso say the story might have been?
(a) The truth.
(b) A lie.
(c) An elaborate insurance scam.
(d) Misinterpreted.

13. What did the people speaking of the ill brother construct, according to Basso?
(a) A mild form of envy.
(b) A mild form of praise.
(c) A mild form of reprimand.
(d) A strong form of reprimand.

14. Where does Basso say the strength of the Apache language comes from?
(a) The women sotires.
(b) Interlocking of many levels of abstract.
(c) Its utterances.
(d) The absance of vowels.

15. How does Basso describe the discussion between the group and the woman whose brother was sick?
(a) Meaningless.
(b) Cryptic.
(c) Clear.
(d) Casual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basso say Lola did when she revealed where the brother fell ill?

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

3. How many forms of speech did the Cibecue have?

4. What were Western Apaches increasingly emphasizing, according to Basso?

5. What do tales force individuals to do?

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