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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The medicine men also teach the white men to use Quinine to treat ___________, according to Alvord's research.

2. Women are allowed to have ________ names as a part of their position and role in society.

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

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

5. Alvord's __________, due to her training as a surgeon, often makes her look like a white woman.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the background of one of Alvord's grandfathers, which allows her grandmother to understand Alvord's conflict?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What do the Navajo first think when they become ill or sick with any kind of disease?

9. What is the job that Alvord takes after she graduates from Dartmouth?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Navajo think that singing can help people bring their bodies back into a state of wellness.

Part 1: How do you think singing helps people begin to heal their bodies?

Part 2: Would you use a song in order to make yourself feel better?

Part 3: Why do you think a song might make a person feel better about their health issues?

Essay Topic 2

A medicine man is the one who realizes the cause of the unexplained deaths in the Navajo reservation.

Part 1: Why do you think no one else could determine the possible cause of the Navajo plague?

Part 2: How is it that the media didn't point out the help of the medicine man?

Part 3: Do you think anyone else would have been able to determine the cause of the plague?

Essay Topic 3

Bernice's grandmother is hesitant to have Alvord operate on her granddaughter because of past experiences with Anglos.

Part 1: How do you think Bernice's grandmother feels about surgeons?

Part 2: Why do you think the grandmother is unwilling to separate her history from the present day experience?

Part 3: Do you think Alvord should have talked to the child's father in order to get permission to operate?

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