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

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

3. ___________ is the only Ivy League school at the time that has more than fifty Native American students.
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Dartmouth.
(d) Yale.

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

5. The Navajo are taught to always be _________ in dealing with others in their lives.
(a) Humble.
(b) Secretive.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Sullen.

Short Answer Questions

1. A person can live a long time without a ____________, as Alvord has seen time and time again.

2. What subject in school has always fascinated Alvord?

3. There is some evidence now that suggests patients are _________ during surgery and this awareness affects them after.

4. The leading cause of death among the Navajo people is ____________, at the time of this book.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Navajo first think when they become ill or sick with any kind of disease?

2. What is the job that Alvord takes after she graduates from Dartmouth?

3. What happens among the Navajo people when Alvord becomes a doctor?

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

5. What was special about the student population at Dartmouth, where Alvord sent her college application?

6. What does Alvord have to do as a child growing up that causes her to choose between her heritages?

7. What was the background of one of Alvord's grandfathers, which allows her grandmother to understand Alvord's conflict?

8. What are the Navajo discouraged from doing in order to become more humble?

9. What does Alvord seek to treat when she is managing her patients, a way that develops over time?

10. How does Alvord continue to celebrate her animal totem and her strong sense of self?

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