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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the interviews described in the preface offer a glimpse into?
(a) A glimpse into the Hmong culture.
(b) The struggles of a writer.
(c) How a writer interviews difficult subjects.
(d) How the government deals with refugees.

2. What is the Hmong tradition for delivery of babies?
(a) Babies are delivered in a hospital.
(b) Babies are delivered in their home.
(c) Babies are delivered in tents.
(d) A midwife delivers babies at the hospital.

3. Who is with Foua Lee when she goes through childbirth?
(a) She is surrounded by her other sleeping children.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A midwife.
(d) A doctor.

4. How many children does Foua Lee have before the childbirth we read about in Chapter One?
(a) Ten.
(b) None.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Two.

5. Who is Foua Lee?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Mother of Lia Lee.
(c) Interpreter.
(d) Sister of Lia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author work through the barrier in interviewing the family?

2. What is impossible to separate from the past for the Hmong people?

3. When does the Hmong culture utilize a txiv neeb?

4. Why did the Hmong rebel as described in Chapter Two?

5. What is a "txiv neeb" in the Hmong tribe?

(see the answer key)

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