View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alvord begins to see how her Native American ________ can aid in her educational process.
(a) Story.
(b) Background.
(c) Theology.
(d) Experience.

2. Navajo people often want the removed _________ back after the surgery is complete, according to tradition.
(a) Blood.
(b) Organs.
(c) Fluids.
(d) Stitches.

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

4. What part of Evelyn's body is partially paralyzed as a result of the surgery, according to the book?
(a) Right.
(b) Both.
(c) Left.
(d) Neither.

5. What is the type of surgery that Evelyn Bitsui has to have during this section of the book's narrative?
(a) Breast cancer.
(b) Gallbladder.
(c) Lung.
(d) Pelvic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Navajo students were at the school of the person that Alvord meets and finds to be an inspiration?

2. What are Navajo men particularly vulnerable toward, which causes many maladies among Navajo men?

3. What did Alvord NOT have that makes it difficult when she wants to apply to medical school?

4. Where is Alvord encouraged to go by Rosenberg, even though she does not think she is capable?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What could the Navajo people not believe about the disease of cancer, as they had no word for it?

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

3. What happens during the surgery of Evelyn Bitsui, which leads to Alvord improving her bedside manner?

4. How does Alvord see alcohol and its impact on the Native American people?

5. What happens among the Navajo people when Alvord becomes a doctor?

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

7. Who has an alcohol problem, which leads Alvord to see alcoholism as a disease?

8. What does Gary Rosenberg encourage Alvord to do, though she had not considered it for herself before that time?

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

10. What is something Alvord's mother teaches her, though it is not common in the Navajo culture?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 556 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample