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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. The form of healing that is used in the Navajo culture is the idea of walking in ___________.

2. The fact that Alvord is a _______ often meant that she was not recognized as a Navajo by her fellow tribespeople.

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

4. Cupp is barred from speaking ________ when he is in school, which causes the assimilation of the culture.

5. Alvord respects her patients desire to have __________ before they have any surgery.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Navajo people think causes cancer in those who are stricken with it?

2. How does Alvord see alcohol and its impact on the Native American people?

3. What kind of job does Alvord have when she is fourteen and living on the reservation?

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

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

6. Who has an alcohol problem, which leads Alvord to see alcoholism as a disease?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

The Navajo people were deeply oppressed by others, causing them to have troubles handling their lives and their feelings about their lives.

Part 1: Why were the Navajo people oppressed by others?

Part 2: How might a people become oppressed by another group of people?

Part 3: Can the Navajo people change the way that others feel about them? Is this their job to do so?

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