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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does a txiv neeb reach a diagnosis?
(a) They ask the village for their feelings.
(b) He or she asks their colleagues.
(c) A txiv neeb senses things in the spiritual world.
(d) He or she asks pointed questions.

2. What position do mother's use for childbirth?
(a) Laying down in their own bed.
(b) They lay in the bathtub.
(c) Laying down in a hospital bed.
(d) Squatting on the floor.

3. When did the Lee's flee their homeland?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1982.

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

5. Why did the Hmong people have these feelings about American doctors at that time?
(a) A Hmong woman came back to a camp with not favorable things to say.
(b) They did not think the doctors believed in the same things they did.
(c) They had heard stories written in a book.
(d) They did not believe in anything but shaman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in California did the author travel to meet with the Lee family?

2. Who did Lia's family believe captured her spirit in Chapter Three?

3. What is the difference between Hmong culture and American in terms of high contact?

4. When did the Lee family arrive in America?

5. What complicated the process of putting a IV in Lia when she was taken to the hospital, as described in Chapter Five?

(see the answer key)

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