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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. Who does Alvord decide to talk to in order to get the surgery to happen?
(a) Melanie's brother.
(b) Melanie's father.
(c) Melanie's mother.
(d) Melanie's grandmother.

2. What does Alvord decide to do, even though it's in direct opposition of her doctor's orders?
(a) Continue with surgery.
(b) See a medicine man.
(c) Take medication.
(d) Nothing.

3. Where does Alvord drive to in order to see the medicine man during her pregnancy?
(a) El Paso.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Albuquerque.
(d) Tuba City.

4. According to Alvord, new _________ support her beliefs of how social activities and relationships are tied to lower mortality rates.
(a) Magazine articles.
(b) Movements.
(c) Clinical studies.
(d) Journals.

5. Thomas also knows parts of the nine day _________ ceremony.
(a) Star Way.
(b) Moon Light Way.
(c) Night Way.
(d) Chant Way.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many people who see stories about the Navajo and this disease begin to worry that it is the way the Navajo _________ that causes the disease.

2. What is the year in which Jon and Lori meet, according to the book?

3. The Navajo celebrate the first _______ of a baby, according to the start of this section.

4. The first that is described in #157 is a sign that the ________ of the baby has attached to the body.

5. What might have spilled into Florena's body if Alvord had cut into her body accidentally?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thomas Hataathlii perform and do as his profession?

2. What is the elective surgery that Florena Woody has, which is generally complication free?

3. What is placed on Alvord's body during the c-section procedure?

4. Why does Alvord choose the name she does for her child during her pregnancy?

5. What happens when Alvord first becomes pregnant with her first child?

6. Why is Alvord hesitant to become involved with a white man, according to her writing?

7. What does Alvord believe happened during Florena's surgery, which may have led to her death?

8. What happens when Alvord works on a surgery with an Army Special Forces medic trainee, according to the book?

9. What is the problem with Melanie Begay's appendix surgery?

10. What are the allegations made against the Indian Health Service in the 1950s?

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