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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten, At the Big Medicine Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the components of a normal Navajo diet?
(a) Limited meat.
(b) Beans.
(c) Grains.
(d) Sweets.

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

3. As a child, Alvord often has to decide whether to play with the _________ or the whites in their neighborhood and schools.
(a) Chinese.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Whites.
(d) Navajo.

4. Where does Dr. Alvord find Carloyn later on, though she knew that she would be seeking additional healing?
(a) Beauty Way.
(b) Night Way.
(c) Night Chant.
(d) Beauty Chant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Patients are made to be _________ in the traditional medicine system, according to this book.

2. Women are allowed to have ________ names as a part of their position and role in society.

3. Medicine men and women come to see the person they are treating as a __________ person.

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

5. Jesus Arviso is a _________ translator who was eventually adopted into the tribe, according to Alvord.

(see the answer key)

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