View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who oversaw Lia's care at Merced?

2. Who filed a report about Lia to Child Protective Services?

3. Because of what the Hmong believe about why illnesses happen, what do they question about doctors in Chapter Four?

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

5. In Chapter Four, what did the Hmong people back at the camp ask the woman about American doctors?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Lee's reaction when Lia returns home from foster care.

2. Explain Neil's decision to file a report with Child Protective Services.

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

4. Who do the Lees blame for Lia's mental regression in Chapter Nine?

5. What is the meaning of qaug dab peg and why is it important to the story?

6. What happened after Neil filed the report with Child Protective Services?

7. What is special about the red chair where Anne sat to do her interviews?

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

9. Describe what the author says in the preface about the insights the taped recordings of interviews offered.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What importance does the history of the Hmong people, specifically the fact that doctors are not used in the culture and that the Lee family is forced to leave Laos, have to this story?

Essay Topic 2

What leads to the end of the Hmong's peaceful life in the mountains? How does their relationship with Americans contribute to this?

Essay Topic 3

What problems does the Hmong people's importance on ancestors and tradition create when having conversations with Americans? Give two examples from the book and explain.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 751 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample