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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Whites.
(d) Blacks.

2. What is the job that Alvord gets when she is in high school and is interested in medicine?
(a) Veterinarian assistant.
(b) Reservation pharmacy.
(c) She doesn't have a job.
(d) Medicine apprentice.

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

4. Relationships must be in _______ with others in order to be healthy, according to the Navajo way of thinking.
(a) Truth.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Commitment.

5. Which of Alvord's parents is a full-blooded Navajo person, according to this book?
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Both.
(d) Neither.

6. Alvord's ________ has troubles with alcohol too, which allows her to see alcoholism as a disease rather than a character flaw.
(a) Uncle.
(b) Brother.
(c) Mother.
(d) Father.

7. ___________ is the only Ivy League school at the time that has more than fifty Native American students.
(a) Dartmouth.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

8. Alvord didn't expect much of college until she met a Navajo student from ____________.
(a) Princeton.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Dartmouth.

9. The medicine men also teach the white men to use Quinine to treat ___________, according to Alvord's research.
(a) Malaria.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Hepatitis.
(d) Chicken pox.

10. What did Alvord never do as she was not raised in her culture to do so?
(a) Correct the teacher.
(b) Raise her hand.
(c) Turn in homework.
(d) Discuss with others.

11. A ___________ is a song that's needed to cure a person of their illness in the Navajo culture.
(a) Blessingway.
(b) Songway.
(c) Chantway.
(d) Beauty Way.

12. Where does Alvord decide to work with Gary Rosenberg, according to the book?
(a) Dartmouth.
(b) University of New Mexico.
(c) University of Phoenix.
(d) Yale.

13. Alvord believes that patient _______ are dehumanizing and inharmonious, according to her description.
(a) Summaries.
(b) Charts.
(c) Histories.
(d) Progress notes.

14. In which town is Carolyn visiting a clinic during the start of this particular chapter?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Gallup.
(c) El Paso.
(d) Crownpoint.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Alvord knows that _______ patients needed to be handled with care, especially when it comes to end of life decisions.

2. What did Alvord NOT have that makes it difficult when she wants to apply to medical school?

3. The Navajo are taught to always be _________ in dealing with others in their lives.

4. Navajos have a strong cultural belief that they should never touch _____________.

5. __________ have a strong role in the Navajo culture, helping to create structure and order.

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