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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bars does Gallup have for every 50,000 people at the time of the book, according to Alvord?
(a) 5.
(b) 50.
(c) 25.
(d) 100.

2. Native American history shows how other cultures have come to see their race as ____________.
(a) Superior.
(b) Ignorable.
(c) Inferior.
(d) Useless.

3. For how long is Carolyn missing before Dr. Alvord finds her?
(a) One week.
(b) One year.
(c) One month.
(d) One day.

4. What are Navajo men particularly vulnerable toward, which causes many maladies among Navajo men?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Peyote.
(d) Alcohol.

5. Alvord knows that _______ patients needed to be handled with care, especially when it comes to end of life decisions.
(a) Female.
(b) Navajo.
(c) Lakota.
(d) Male.

6. What is the job that Alvord takes on with Gary Rosenberg in New Mexico?
(a) Research technician.
(b) Fact checker.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Research assistant.

7. Alvord's __________, due to her training as a surgeon, often makes her look like a white woman.
(a) Appearance.
(b) Rules.
(c) Movements.
(d) Clothing.

8. Who states that Dezbah is healed from her surgery, according to this section of the book?
(a) Her family.
(b) The tea leaves.
(c) Medicine man.
(d) A child.

9. Who was often impatient with those who did a poor job and did not like to be questioned?
(a) Job.
(b) The nurses.
(c) Dr. Alvord.
(d) Jon.

10. Most people on the reservation spoke __________ as their first language, according to Alvord.
(a) English.
(b) Navajo.
(c) Lakota.
(d) Spanish.

11. Alvord believes a part of the problem with Evelyn's outcome is that Alvord does not __________ the patient.
(a) Believe.
(b) Examine.
(c) Trust.
(d) Know.

12. The main concern with cancer among the Navajo people is that they think it is _____________.
(a) Contagious.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Black magic.
(d) Magic.

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

14. Cupp is barred from speaking ________ when he is in school, which causes the assimilation of the culture.
(a) Sioux.
(b) Navajo.
(c) Lakota.
(d) English.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The form of healing that is used in the Navajo culture is the idea of walking in ___________.

3. Alvord begins to find that the logic of _________ extends to other subjects, so she does well in school.

4. Grace ends up marrying an ___________ and has an appreciation of other cultures.

5. Patients can often feel ____________ and forgotten when they are in the Western medicine system.

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