The Scalpel and the Silver Bear Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Lori Alvord
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 100 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Lori Alvord
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 100 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, Life Out of Balance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most people on the reservation spoke __________ as their first language, according to Alvord.
(a) Navajo.
(b) Lakota.
(c) English.
(d) Spanish.

2. __________ is a reservation border town that spills into New Mexico, so Alvord decides to move there with her grandmother.
(a) Truckee.
(b) Auburn.
(c) Gallup.
(d) Pueblo.

3. The fact that Alvord is a _______ often meant that she was not recognized as a Navajo by her fellow tribespeople.
(a) Doctor.
(b) Priest.
(c) Woman.
(d) Sister.

4. What is the cultural background of Alvord's mother, according to this section?
(a) White.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Mix of Navajo and white.
(d) Navajo.

5. Navajos have a strong cultural belief that they should never touch _____________.
(a) The sick.
(b) The dead.
(c) The liars.
(d) The living.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the color the overwhelms Alvord when she first gets onto her college campus?

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

3. Medicine men and women come to see the person they are treating as a __________ person.

4. The Navajo are taught to always be _________ in dealing with others in their lives.

5. It is revealed later on that Alvord's paternal grandfather was a ___________ man.

(see the answer key)

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