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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the color the overwhelms Alvord when she first gets onto her college campus?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Gray.
(d) Green.

2. The Navajo are taught to always be _________ in dealing with others in their lives.
(a) Humble.
(b) Secretive.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Sullen.

3. Cancer is seen as a great ________ to the Navajo people, caused by an evil action or evil deed.
(a) Abomination.
(b) Horror.
(c) Concern.
(d) Destruction.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Medicine men and women come to see the person they are treating as a __________ person.

3. The school where Alvord is accepted has a __________ Native American community, according to the book.

4. __________ is a reservation border town that spills into New Mexico, so Alvord decides to move there with her grandmother.

5. Navajos have a strong cultural belief that they should never touch _____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the problem that requires Dezbah Tsosie to have surgery with Alvord?

3. How does Alvord continue to celebrate her animal totem and her strong sense of self?

4. What is the background of Alvord's parents which makes her distinctly capable of working within two worlds of thought?

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

6. What does Alvord learn from her grandmother, Grace Cupp, as she grows up on the reservation?

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

8. What does Alvord arrange for a cancer patient, Carolyn Yazzie, when she is diagnosed with breast cancer?

9. Why are end of life decisions difficult for many Navajos to make, according to Alvord's observations?

10. What does Alvord seek to treat when she is managing her patients, a way that develops over time?

(see the answer keys)

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