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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. Alvord begins to find that the logic of _________ extends to other subjects, so she does well in school.
(a) Humility.
(b) Truth.
(c) Anatomy.
(d) Spirituality.

2. Cancer is seen as a great ________ to the Navajo people, caused by an evil action or evil deed.
(a) Destruction.
(b) Horror.
(c) Concern.
(d) Abomination.

3. Alvord respects her patients desire to have __________ before they have any surgery.
(a) Smoke lodges.
(b) Ceremonies.
(c) Gatherings of family.
(d) Sacrifices.

4. For how many days would people in the ceremony help to sing and dance with the person that is ill?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Nine.

5. Alvord believes a part of the problem with Evelyn's outcome is that Alvord does not __________ the patient.
(a) Know.
(b) Believe.
(c) Trust.
(d) Examine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Women are allowed to have ________ names as a part of their position and role in society.

2. What is the type of bark that can be used to treat scurvy?

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

4. The body, according to Alvord, appeared to be like the Navajo philosophy of the __________.

5. A person can live a long time without a ____________, as Alvord has seen time and time again.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Alvord's father after his troubles with alcohol?

2. What is something Alvord's mother teaches her, though it is not common in the Navajo culture?

3. What is the problem that requires Dezbah Tsosie to have surgery with Alvord?

4. What is the ancestral diet of the Navajo, according to Alvord?

5. What are some of the roles that a woman may play within the matriarchal society of the Navajo?

6. What could the Navajo people not believe about the disease of cancer, as they had no word for it?

7. How does Alvord see alcohol and its impact on the Native American people?

8. What does Alvord think about patient histories and how they describe the patients?

9. What does Alvord arrange for a cancer patient, Carolyn Yazzie, when she is diagnosed with breast cancer?

10. What do the Navajo people think causes cancer in those who are stricken with it?

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