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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What relationship does the author describe in the preface?
(a) Her relationship with her daughter.
(b) Her relationship with the doctors.
(c) Her relationship with the publisher.
(d) Her relationship with the Lee family.

2. What question did the Hmong people have about surgery in Chapter Four, one that sounds absurd to American people?
(a) They asked why one person would cut into another for the fun of it.
(b) They asked if doctors ate the body parts after surgery.
(c) They asked if doctors used magic to perform surgery.
(d) They asked why doctors had to wash up before surgery.

3. What kind of medicine do the Hmong allow themselves to rely on?
(a) Aromatherapies.
(b) Shots.
(c) Antibiotics.
(d) Vitamins.

4. What diseases do Hmong people suffer from at a higher rate than others?
(a) The flu.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Lymes Disease.
(d) Diabetes and tuberculosis.

5. At the end of Chapter Three, Lia had a diagnosis of what?
(a) Developmental delays.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Sinus infection.
(d) Flu.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many seizures did Lia have over a few months time in Chapter Three?

2. How many times was Lia admitted to Merced between the ages of eight months and four and a half years?

3. What prompted the author to go and meet the Lee family?

4. Translated, what does "qaug dab peg" mean?

5. What problem occurred when the Lee's first went to Merced Community Medical Center with Lia?

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