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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fourteen, Mount Taylor in the Rearview Mirror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The body, according to Alvord, appeared to be like the Navajo philosophy of the __________.
(a) Water.
(b) Land.
(c) Universe.
(d) Beauty Way.

2. What is the ceremony that Thomas has performed in the past, even though he is one of the youngest medicine men?
(a) Chant Way.
(b) Beauty Way.
(c) Honor Way.
(d) Baby Way.

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

4. Alvord comes to look at the ________ of the being of each of her patients, according to the book.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Story.
(c) Honor.
(d) Harmony.

5. What is the disease Florena had contracted after her surgery that may have caused her death?
(a) Stomach virus.
(b) Severe respiratory distress.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What condition is Alvord treating in Melanie at the start of this chapter?

2. Cupp is barred from speaking ________ when he is in school, which causes the assimilation of the culture.

3. Most people on the reservation spoke __________ as their first language, according to Alvord.

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

5. Thomas may be young at this point of the story, but he is _________ and keeps the old ways of the Navajo.

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