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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Alvord NOT have that makes it difficult when she wants to apply to medical school?

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

3. Where does Dr. Alvord find Carloyn later on, though she knew that she would be seeking additional healing?

4. What is the color the overwhelms Alvord when she first gets onto her college campus?

5. Alvord's ________ has troubles with alcohol too, which allows her to see alcoholism as a disease rather than a character flaw.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Gary Rosenberg encourage Alvord to do, though she had not considered it for herself before that time?

4. What is the problem that requires Dezbah Tsosie to have surgery with Alvord?

5. What are some of the roles that a woman may play within the matriarchal society of the Navajo?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alvord comes to see alcoholism as a disease after witnessing the way it impacts the Navajo people.

Part 1: How would you define the condition of alcoholism?

Part 2: Do you think the alcoholism is a problem that can be stopped in the Navajo people?

Part 3: Why would a people who want to live in balance turn to alcohol?

Essay Topic 2

Alvord notices that many surgeons look at human beings like machines, rather than human beings.

Part 1: Why might a surgeon look at a patient like a machine?

Part 2: What is the value of depersonalizing and dehumanizing a surgical patient?

Part 3: How might a surgeon do better work if they look at patients like human beings?

Essay Topic 3

When a Navajo person becomes ill, they wonder what ritual or norm they broke.

Part 1: How might being out of balance in life lead to sickness?

Part 2: Why do you think the Navajo don't necessarily think of a virus or a germ causing them to be sick?

Part 3: What do you think when you first begin to show signs of illness?

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