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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 might have spilled into Florena's body if Alvord had cut into her body accidentally?
(a) Bile.
(b) Pus.
(c) Mucus.
(d) Blood.

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

3. Who was often impatient with those who did a poor job and did not like to be questioned?
(a) The nurses.
(b) Dr. Alvord.
(c) Jon.
(d) Job.

4. Robert Cupp is Alvord's father, and knew everyone, every animal, and every _____________ in the area.
(a) Shadow.
(b) Car.
(c) Geographical location.
(d) Book.

5. ___________ is the only Ivy League school at the time that has more than fifty Native American students.
(a) Dartmouth.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Princeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ eventually has to make a decision about whether to stay on or to leave the reservation.

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

3. In which town is Carolyn visiting a clinic during the start of this particular chapter?

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.

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

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