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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, Ceremony Medicine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Native American history shows how other cultures have come to see their race as ____________.
(a) Useless.
(b) Ignorable.
(c) Superior.
(d) Inferior.

2. The Navajo have no word for ________, which is a part of why it is so scary to them when it comes up.
(a) Pain.
(b) Fear.
(c) Love.
(d) Cancer.

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

4. During the ceremony, many people sing songs that talk about the beauty of the _____________.
(a) Shooting stars.
(b) Universe.
(c) Sick person.
(d) Earth.

5. To the students at Alvord's new college, the reservation would appear to be a ______________.
(a) Mine field.
(b) Catastrophe.
(c) War zone.
(d) Third world country.

Short Answer Questions

1. A ___________ is a song that's needed to cure a person of their illness in the Navajo culture.

2. When the Navajo become ill, they often wonder what local ______ they broke in order to create the situation of disease.

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

4. What is the job that Alvord gets when she is in high school and is interested in medicine?

5. The fact that Alvord is a _______ often meant that she was not recognized as a Navajo by her fellow tribespeople.

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