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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, The 'Navajo Plague'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a child, Alvord often has to decide whether to play with the _________ or the whites in their neighborhood and schools.
(a) Blacks.
(b) Whites.
(c) Navajo.
(d) Chinese.

2. What is a common condition among the Navajo people, which is why they have to have surgery so often?
(a) Kidney stones.
(b) Bad livers.
(c) Throat cancers.
(d) Large gallstones.

3. The medicine men also teach the white men to use Quinine to treat ___________, according to Alvord's research.
(a) Hepatitis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Chicken pox.

4. Many people who see stories about the Navajo and this disease begin to worry that it is the way the Navajo _________ that causes the disease.
(a) Live.
(b) Drink.
(c) Drive.
(d) Worship.

5. It is revealed later on that Alvord's paternal grandfather was a ___________ man.
(a) Navajo.
(b) Lakota.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the kind of necklace that Alvord wears, in accordance with her animal totem?

2. Alvord respects her patients desire to have __________ before they have any surgery.

3. The eventual diagnosis for Florena is catastrophic ________, according to the records.

4. What are Navajo men particularly vulnerable toward, which causes many maladies among Navajo men?

5. Who is called in to help the Navajo people if they can not heal on their own?

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