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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________ have a strong role in the Navajo culture, helping to create structure and order.
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Elders.

2. Navajos have a strong cultural belief that they should never touch _____________.
(a) The living.
(b) The dead.
(c) The liars.
(d) The sick.

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

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

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

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

7. What is the color the overwhelms Alvord when she first gets onto her college campus?
(a) Blue.
(b) Gray.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

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

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

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

11. Patients are made to be _________ in the traditional medicine system, according to this book.
(a) Active.
(b) Dehumanized.
(c) Passive.
(d) Dramatized.

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

13. What part of Evelyn's body is partially paralyzed as a result of the surgery, according to the book?
(a) Right.
(b) Neither.
(c) Left.
(d) Both.

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

15. What is the type of surgery that Evelyn Bitsui has to have during this section of the book's narrative?
(a) Breast cancer.
(b) Gallbladder.
(c) Lung.
(d) Pelvic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alvord comes to look at the ________ of the being of each of her patients, according to the book.

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

3. ________ scares Alvord as well since so many dollars are poured into research, only to have it not be easy to treat.

4. The Navajo have no word for ________, which is a part of why it is so scary to them when it comes up.

5. Dr. Alvord is the first __________ to become a surgeon, according to the book.

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