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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. Medicine men and women come to see the person they are treating as a __________ person.
(a) Whole.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Bored.
(d) Scattered.

2. Alvord begins to see how her Native American ________ can aid in her educational process.
(a) Theology.
(b) Background.
(c) Story.
(d) Experience.

3. Jesus Arviso is a _________ translator who was eventually adopted into the tribe, according to Alvord.
(a) French.
(b) Greek.
(c) Russian.
(d) Spaniard.

4. For Alvord, coming back to the _____________ is difficult and painful at times.
(a) Hut.
(b) Smaller cities.
(c) Reservation.
(d) Hospital.

5. The fact that Alvord is a _______ often meant that she was not recognized as a Navajo by her fellow tribespeople.
(a) Doctor.
(b) Sister.
(c) Priest.
(d) Woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is called in to help the Navajo people if they can not heal on their own?

2. Navajos do not dream of a __________, as this is not passed down to daughters in the culture.

3. What is the type of surgery that Evelyn Bitsui has to have during this section of the book's narrative?

4. Most people on the reservation spoke __________ as their first language, according to Alvord.

5. Alvord didn't expect much of college until she met a Navajo student from ____________.

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