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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, Life Out of Balance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Relationships must be in _______ with others in order to be healthy, according to the Navajo way of thinking.
(a) Commitment.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Truth.

2. Patients can often feel ____________ and forgotten when they are in the Western medicine system.
(a) Powerless.
(b) Unhealthy.
(c) Doomed.
(d) Bored.

3. What is the type of surgery that Evelyn Bitsui has to have during this section of the book's narrative?
(a) Breast cancer.
(b) Lung.
(c) Gallbladder.
(d) Pelvic.

4. Alvord believes a part of the problem with Evelyn's outcome is that Alvord does not __________ the patient.
(a) Know.
(b) Examine.
(c) Trust.
(d) Believe.

5. What is the job that Alvord gets when she is in high school and is interested in medicine?
(a) Reservation pharmacy.
(b) Medicine apprentice.
(c) She doesn't have a job.
(d) Veterinarian assistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was Dr. Alvord born before she was moved onto the reservation with her parents?

2. Alvord knows that _______ patients needed to be handled with care, especially when it comes to end of life decisions.

3. In what state does Alvord have her surgical practice, according to this chapter?

4. What is the kind of necklace that Alvord wears, in accordance with her animal totem?

5. Alvord begins to see how her Native American ________ can aid in her educational process.

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