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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the kind of necklace that Alvord wears, in accordance with her animal totem?
(a) Silver snake.
(b) Silver fox.
(c) Silver spider.
(d) Silver bear.

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

4. For Alvord, coming back to the _____________ is difficult and painful at times.
(a) Hut.
(b) Reservation.
(c) Hospital.
(d) Smaller cities.

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

6. What is Alvord's first name, as given to her when she was born?
(a) Lori.
(b) Lorisa.
(c) Janette.
(d) Lorraine.

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

8. The form of healing that is used in the Navajo culture is the idea of walking in ___________.
(a) Balance.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Truth.

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

10. Grace ends up marrying an ___________ and has an appreciation of other cultures.
(a) Irishman.
(b) Ojibuwe.
(c) Welshman.
(d) Englishman.

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

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

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

14. In what state was Dr. Alvord born before she was moved onto the reservation with her parents?
(a) Washington.
(b) Texas.
(c) California.
(d) Oregon.

15. Patients can often feel ____________ and forgotten when they are in the Western medicine system.
(a) Powerless.
(b) Bored.
(c) Unhealthy.
(d) Doomed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Alvord never do as she was not raised in her culture to do so?

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

3. Who is called in to help the Navajo people if they can not heal on their own?

4. What is the type of cancer that Carolyn Yazzie has, as described during this section of the book?

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

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