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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven, Do Not Try to Count the Stars.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was often impatient with those who did a poor job and did not like to be questioned?
(a) Job.
(b) Dr. Alvord.
(c) The nurses.
(d) Jon.

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

3. Who states that Dezbah is healed from her surgery, according to this section of the book?
(a) Her family.
(b) The tea leaves.
(c) Medicine man.
(d) A child.

4. Alvord begins to feel the effects of disharmony in her life, which causes her to consider seeing a ____________.
(a) Doctor.
(b) Medicine man.
(c) Midwife.
(d) Shaman.

5. Pregnancy induced hypertension is also known as ___________, which is the final diagnosis of Alvord at this point.
(a) Mother's condition.
(b) Preeclampsia.
(c) False labor.
(d) Birlirubism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Evelyn's body is partially paralyzed as a result of the surgery, according to the book?

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

3. Alvord believes a part of the problem with Evelyn's outcome is that Alvord does not __________ the patient.

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

5. What does Alvord decide to do, even though it's in direct opposition of her doctor's orders?

(see the answer key)

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