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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve, The Spirit Horse's Bridle.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Alvord's grandmother _________ understands the complexities of living two lives, as she comes from a mixed background.
(a) Grace.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Anne.
(d) June.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the year in which Jon and Lori meet, according to the book?

2. Many people who see stories about the Navajo and this disease begin to worry that it is the way the Navajo _________ that causes the disease.

3. Relationships must be in _______ with others in order to be healthy, according to the Navajo way of thinking.

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

5. __________ have tried to eradicate the culture and the language of the Native Americans.

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