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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. __________ is a reservation border town that spills into New Mexico, so Alvord decides to move there with her grandmother.
(a) Auburn.
(b) Gallup.
(c) Truckee.
(d) Pueblo.

2. Navajos have a strong cultural belief that they should never touch _____________.
(a) The liars.
(b) The sick.
(c) The living.
(d) The dead.

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

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

5. What is the kind of necklace that Alvord wears, in accordance with her animal totem?
(a) Silver fox.
(b) Silver bear.
(c) Silver snake.
(d) Silver spider.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was often impatient with those who did a poor job and did not like to be questioned?

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

3. Alvord inherited the _________ of her people, even though her siblings were proud to be American.

4. ___________ is the only Ivy League school at the time that has more than fifty Native American students.

5. What part of Evelyn's body is partially paralyzed as a result of the surgery, according to the book?

(see the answer key)

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