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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, Ceremony Medicine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________ have a strong role in the Navajo culture, helping to create structure and order.
(a) Elders.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

2. _______ eventually has to make a decision about whether to stay on or to leave the reservation.
(a) Grace.
(b) Alvord.
(c) June.
(d) Anna.

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

4. As a child, Alvord often has to decide whether to play with the _________ or the whites in their neighborhood and schools.
(a) Navajo.
(b) Whites.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Blacks.

5. Patients can often feel ____________ and forgotten when they are in the Western medicine system.
(a) Unhealthy.
(b) Bored.
(c) Doomed.
(d) Powerless.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The main concern with cancer among the Navajo people is that they think it is _____________.

3. Robert Cupp is Alvord's father, and knew everyone, every animal, and every _____________ in the area.

4. ___________ is the only Ivy League school at the time that has more than fifty Native American students.

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

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