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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________ is a reservation border town that spills into New Mexico, so Alvord decides to move there with her grandmother.
(a) Pueblo.
(b) Gallup.
(c) Auburn.
(d) Truckee.

2. __________ among the Navajo were challenging for some doctors, according to the book's description.
(a) Rites.
(b) Families.
(c) Songs.
(d) Superstitions.

3. What is a common condition among the Navajo people, which is why they have to have surgery so often?
(a) Throat cancers.
(b) Large gallstones.
(c) Kidney stones.
(d) Bad livers.

4. What did Alvord NOT have that makes it difficult when she wants to apply to medical school?
(a) Health.
(b) Money.
(c) Time.
(d) Books.

5. 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) Love.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Pain.

6. ________ scares Alvord as well since so many dollars are poured into research, only to have it not be easy to treat.
(a) Hanta virus.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Pneumonia.

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

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

9. Drunk driving arrests in Gallup exceed _________ per year, according to Alvord at the time of writing this book.
(a) 50,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 100,000.

10. For how many days would people in the ceremony help to sing and dance with the person that is ill?
(a) Four.
(b) Nine.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

11. Robert Cupp turns to __________ in order to cope with the years of oppression he suffers at the hands of others.
(a) Drinking.
(b) Affairs.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Writing.

12. Medicine men and women come to see the person they are treating as a __________ person.
(a) Scattered.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Whole.
(d) Bored.

13. How many sisters does Dr. Alvord have, according to her family history?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Zero.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The fact that Alvord is a _______ often meant that she was not recognized as a Navajo by her fellow tribespeople.

2. Alvord and her sisters never think the media's representation of ___________ has anything to do with them.

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

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

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

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