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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. What is Alvord's first name, as given to her when she was born?
(a) Janette.
(b) Lori.
(c) Lorisa.
(d) Lorraine.

2. Alvord knows that _______ patients needed to be handled with care, especially when it comes to end of life decisions.
(a) Male.
(b) Lakota.
(c) Female.
(d) Navajo.

3. Which of Alvord's parents is a full-blooded Navajo person, according to this book?
(a) Father.
(b) Both.
(c) Mother.
(d) Neither.

4. __________ have a strong role in the Navajo culture, helping to create structure and order.
(a) Elders.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

5. When the Navajo become ill, they often wonder what local ______ they broke in order to create the situation of disease.
(a) Promise.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Story.
(d) Water line.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. _______ eventually has to make a decision about whether to stay on or to leave the reservation.

3. For Alvord, coming back to the _____________ is difficult and painful at times.

4. It is revealed later on that Alvord's paternal grandfather was a ___________ man.

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

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