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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter Six, what would have been a more agreeable plan to the Hmong in terms of treating illness?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Surgery.
(d) Sleep.

2. What did Lia's family realize in Chapter Nine about her after she returned?
(a) She had regressed.
(b) She didn't miss them.
(c) That she was happy in her foster home.
(d) They could do nothing to help her.

3. Who served as the Lee's advocate when no one else would?
(a) Peggy.
(b) A shaman.
(c) Anne.
(d) Jeanine.

4. What did the Lee's do in honor of Lia returning home in Chapter Nine?
(a) They sacrificed a cow.
(b) They prayed.
(c) They had a celebratory lunch.
(d) They went on with life as normal.

5. In western medicine, what is "quag dab peg"?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) A cold.
(c) A curse.
(d) A family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took the time to solicit the Lees opinions about their daughter's health?

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

3. What was the prescription mentioned in Chapter Five that Lia took most often?

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

5. What is the English translation of the Hmong phrase "to speak of all kinds of things" reference?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to a baby's placenta after in Hmong culture?

2. What did Lia's parents think about Lia's first seizure?

3. What do the Lees give up in order to try to cure Lia?

4. How did the author overcome barriers to interviewing the Lee family?

5. Why did the Lees have to leave their homeland of Laos?

6. Who was May Ying Xiong?

7. How does the author come to know the Lee family?

8. Where were the Hmong in the 1980s getting most of their information about American doctors?

9. Give an example of how the Hmong are clearly tied to their past.

10. Describe Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp.

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