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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, The 'Navajo Plague'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the disease Florena had contracted after her surgery that may have caused her death?
(a) Severe respiratory distress.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Stomach virus.
(d) Nothing.

2. Alvord and her sisters never think the media's representation of ___________ has anything to do with them.
(a) Children.
(b) Hispanics.
(c) Indians.
(d) Whites.

3. ___________ is the only Ivy League school at the time that has more than fifty Native American students.
(a) Harvard.
(b) Dartmouth.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

4. Alvord's ________ has troubles with alcohol too, which allows her to see alcoholism as a disease rather than a character flaw.
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Brother.
(d) Uncle.

5. It is revealed later on that Alvord's paternal grandfather was a ___________ man.
(a) Chinese.
(b) Navajo.
(c) Lakota.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alvord sees alcohol as the lubrication of __________ which allows other people to dominate the Navajo people.

2. As a child, Alvord often has to decide whether to play with the _________ or the whites in their neighborhood and schools.

3. Alvord comes to look at the ________ of the being of each of her patients, according to the book.

4. The leading cause of death among the Navajo people is ____________, at the time of this book.

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

(see the answer key)

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