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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) Influenza.
(d) Hantavirus.

2. Robert teachers his daughters simple Navajo ________ as well a explains to them the interconnectedness of the world.
(a) Parables.
(b) Water chants.
(c) Crafts.
(d) Insights.

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

4. The leading cause of death among the Navajo people is ____________, at the time of this book.
(a) Strokes.
(b) Cirrhosis.
(c) Heart attacks.
(d) Motor vehicle accidents.

5. Alvord and her sisters never think the media's representation of ___________ has anything to do with them.
(a) Whites.
(b) Children.
(c) Indians.
(d) Hispanics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Drunk driving arrests in Gallup exceed _________ per year, according to Alvord at the time of writing this book.

2. There is some evidence now that suggests patients are _________ during surgery and this awareness affects them after.

3. Alvord begins to worry that she may have cut a _________ during Florena's surgery.

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

5. What did Alvord never do as she was not raised in her culture to do so?

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