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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the English translation of the Hmong phrase "to speak of all kinds of things" reference?
(a) Their age.
(b) Traditions.
(c) Their shaman.
(d) The past and their ancestors.

2. As mentioned in Chapter Nine, an ordinance was created banning what?
(a) Shaman.
(b) Sacrifices of animals.
(c) Public meetings of the Hmong clans.
(d) Medicine labels written only in English.

3. What city housed the largest percentage of Hmong per area in California?
(a) Merced.
(b) Stockton.
(c) Sacremento.
(d) Fresno.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chapter 13 say never occurs to Nao and Foua about their children in America?

2. Where did some of the Hmong go after they were divided?

3. When did the Lee family arrive in America?

4. What does Lia's family believe happened during the door slamming mentioned in Chapter Three?

5. What do American doctors do that in the Hmong's opinion, threaten their lives and their soul?

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