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

2. Where is Alvord accepted into medical school, a place that is close to where her sister is located?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Loyola Marymount.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Berekley.

3. Robert Cupp is Alvord's father, and knew everyone, every animal, and every _____________ in the area.
(a) Book.
(b) Shadow.
(c) Car.
(d) Geographical location.

4. Navajos do not dream of a __________, as this is not passed down to daughters in the culture.
(a) Better life.
(b) Single life.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Education.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many bars does Gallup have for every 50,000 people at the time of the book, according to Alvord?

3. Alvord knows that Carolyn's life lacks _________, which might have helped cause her cancer, but she keeps this knowledge to herself.

4. Robert teachers his daughters simple Navajo ________ as well a explains to them the interconnectedness of the world.

5. There is some evidence now that suggests patients are _________ during surgery and this awareness affects them after.

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