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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. What is the trade of Betty Cowboy, who also succumbs to the deadly disease, according to the book?
(a) Silversmith.
(b) Animal doctor.
(c) Medicine woman.
(d) Doctor.

2. What is the disease Florena had contracted after her surgery that may have caused her death?
(a) Stomach virus.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Severe respiratory distress.

3. Alvord knows that _______ patients needed to be handled with care, especially when it comes to end of life decisions.
(a) Lakota.
(b) Navajo.
(c) Male.
(d) Female.

4. What is the actual name of the disease that begins to kill the Navajo?
(a) PCP.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Hantavirus.

5. 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) Drive.
(b) Drink.
(c) Worship.
(d) Live.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who states that Dezbah is healed from her surgery, according to this section of the book?

2. What is the elective surgery that Florena had that then resulted in her death?

3. Jesus Arviso is a _________ translator who was eventually adopted into the tribe, according to Alvord.

4. Alvord and her sisters never think the media's representation of ___________ has anything to do with them.

5. Every dominant culture, according to Alvord, accuses the subordinate cultures of not being __________.

(see the answer key)

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