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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the type of bark that can be used to treat scurvy?
(a) Orange tree.
(b) Evergreen tree.
(c) Birch.
(d) Maple.

2. For how many days would people in the ceremony help to sing and dance with the person that is ill?
(a) Ten.
(b) Nine.
(c) Four.
(d) Twenty.

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

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

5. A person can live a long time without a ____________, as Alvord has seen time and time again.
(a) Voice box.
(b) Liver.
(c) Gall bladder.
(d) Bladder.

6. The body, according to Alvord, appeared to be like the Navajo philosophy of the __________.
(a) Water.
(b) Land.
(c) Beauty Way.
(d) Universe.

7. Alvord knows that Carolyn's life lacks _________, which might have helped cause her cancer, but she keeps this knowledge to herself.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Nutrition.
(d) Balance.

8. In which town is Carolyn visiting a clinic during the start of this particular chapter?
(a) El Paso.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Crownpoint.
(d) Gallup.

9. Drunk driving arrests in Gallup exceed _________ per year, according to Alvord at the time of writing this book.
(a) 50,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 25,000.

10. What is the last name of Dr. Alvord, according to the description of her life in this chapter?
(a) Alvord.
(b) Singing Woman.
(c) Lorraine.
(d) Cupp.

11. What is the job that Alvord gets when she is in high school and is interested in medicine?
(a) Veterinarian assistant.
(b) Reservation pharmacy.
(c) Medicine apprentice.
(d) She doesn't have a job.

12. Alvord sees alcohol as the lubrication of __________ which allows other people to dominate the Navajo people.
(a) Conflagration.
(b) Consternation.
(c) Trepidation.
(d) Domination.

13. Alvord respects her patients desire to have __________ before they have any surgery.
(a) Ceremonies.
(b) Smoke lodges.
(c) Sacrifices.
(d) Gatherings of family.

14. Most people on the reservation spoke __________ as their first language, according to Alvord.
(a) Lakota.
(b) English.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Navajo.

15. The leading cause of death among the Navajo people is ____________, at the time of this book.
(a) Motor vehicle accidents.
(b) Cirrhosis.
(c) Strokes.
(d) Heart attacks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Robert Cupp turns to __________ in order to cope with the years of oppression he suffers at the hands of others.

3. There is some evidence now that suggests patients are _________ during surgery and this awareness affects them after.

4. ________ bark can be used to treat pain, and it is still being used today in chemical form.

5. ________ scares Alvord as well since so many dollars are poured into research, only to have it not be easy to treat.

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