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

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

3. What does Basso say is used to expand the imagination?
(a) Smoke tents.
(b) Pow Wows.
(c) Landscape.
(d) History.

4. What did Basso use to explain the effect of symbolism on individuals?
(a) Apache conceptions of people.
(b) Apache conceptions of water.
(c) Apache conceptions of land.
(d) Apache conceptions of history.

5. Basso says that tales merge elements of _____?
(a) Space and symbols.
(b) Time and symbols.
(c) Time and space.
(d) Time, space, and symbols.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do tales force individuals to do?

2. What does Basso say generated a wide range of cognitive associations?

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

4. How many children did Lola Machuse have?

5. What does Basso say Robert emphasized?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What looks after the Western Apache, according to Basso?

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

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

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