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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. It is revealed later on that Alvord's paternal grandfather was a ___________ man.
(a) Navajo.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Black.
(d) Lakota.

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

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

5. What is the type of cancer that Carolyn Yazzie has, as described during this section of the book?
(a) Lung.
(b) Brain.
(c) Breast.
(d) Bone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Navajos do not dream of a __________, as this is not passed down to daughters in the culture.

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

3. How many Navajo students were at the school of the person that Alvord meets and finds to be an inspiration?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What could the Navajo people not believe about the disease of cancer, as they had no word for it?

2. What is something Alvord's mother teaches her, though it is not common in the Navajo culture?

3. What happens during the surgery of Evelyn Bitsui, which leads to Alvord improving her bedside manner?

4. What does Alvord find helps her in the education process, though she had not done well in previous biology courses?

5. What did Alvord know about the Night Chant, despite what her medical training taught her?

6. What does Alvord learn from her grandmother, Grace Cupp, as she grows up on the reservation?

7. Why does Alvord believe her story is important for Navajo girls to hear, which is why she writes this book?

8. What did other doctors at the Gallup Indian Medical Center find challenging?

9. What does Alvord think about patient histories and how they describe the patients?

10. What does Alvord arrange for a cancer patient, Carolyn Yazzie, when she is diagnosed with breast cancer?

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