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

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

3. Alvord's grandmother _________ understands the complexities of living two lives, as she comes from a mixed background.
(a) June.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Grace.
(d) Anne.

4. Who is called in to help the Navajo people if they can not heal on their own?
(a) Grandparents.
(b) Medicine man.
(c) Parents.
(d) Outsiders.

5. Alvord sees alcohol as the lubrication of __________ which allows other people to dominate the Navajo people.
(a) Domination.
(b) Conflagration.
(c) Trepidation.
(d) Consternation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The medicine men point out to the doctors that there is a large supply of __________.

3. What is the trade of Betty Cowboy, who also succumbs to the deadly disease, according to the book?

4. Alvord believes a part of the problem with Evelyn's outcome is that Alvord does not __________ the patient.

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.

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