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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 color the overwhelms Alvord when she first gets onto her college campus?
(a) Black.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Gray.

2. Alvord didn't expect much of college until she met a Navajo student from ____________.
(a) Yale.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Dartmouth.
(d) Harvard.

3. ________ bark can be used to treat pain, and it is still being used today in chemical form.
(a) Willow.
(b) Evergreen.
(c) Fir.
(d) Redwood.

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

5. Navajo people often want the removed _________ back after the surgery is complete, according to tradition.
(a) Stitches.
(b) Fluids.
(c) Organs.
(d) Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alvord's grandmother _________ understands the complexities of living two lives, as she comes from a mixed background.

2. What might have spilled into Florena's body if Alvord had cut into her body accidentally?

3. What is the actual name of the disease that begins to kill the Navajo?

4. Alvord's __________, due to her training as a surgeon, often makes her look like a white woman.

5. What is a common condition among the Navajo people, which is why they have to have surgery so often?

(see the answer key)

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