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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 is the type of bark that can be used to treat scurvy?

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

3. For how many days would people in the ceremony help to sing and dance with the person that is ill?

4. Relationships must be in _______ with others in order to be healthy, according to the Navajo way of thinking.

5. Which of Alvord's parents is a full-blooded Navajo person, according to this book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Alvord's father after his troubles with alcohol?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alvord realized the value of having her patients trust her when she was working with and on them.

Part 1: Why does a patient need to trust their doctor?

Part 2: What happens when a patient does not trust their doctor?

Part 3: How can a patient's health be impacted by a less than positive relationship with a doctor?

Essay Topic 2

Alvord has troubles with dissecting a cadaver as the Navajo believe the dead should not be touched.

Part 1: Why do you think it is not respectful to touch the dead, according to the Navajo tradition?

Part 2: Do you think Alvord should have dissected the cadaver anyway?

Part 3: What might you have done if you were in Alvord's position?

Essay Topic 3

A medicine man is the one who realizes the cause of the unexplained deaths in the Navajo reservation.

Part 1: Why do you think no one else could determine the possible cause of the Navajo plague?

Part 2: How is it that the media didn't point out the help of the medicine man?

Part 3: Do you think anyone else would have been able to determine the cause of the plague?

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