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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did the Lees believe caused Lia's illness?
2. If healthy communication existed from the beginning, what does the author say in Chapter 18 might have been very different?
3. What did Chapter 11 say was the day Lia's doctor's dreaded?
4. What could the doctors have done that would have shown respect for the Lees' religious beliefs?
5. How many surviving children did they have when they arrived in America?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Lia's condition after she is released from the hospital under the care of her parents?
2. How did the Hmong people show how they were accustomed to life in the mountains?
3. How did Nao view Lia's medications in Chapter 13?
4. After arriving in America, what were considered new concepts to Hmong people like the Lees?
5. Why did Nao and Foua Lee want Lia to return to Merced in Chapter 11?
6. What parts of their old life in Laos did Hmong people keep alive in their American homes?
7. Describe Dang Moua.
8. Explain the hardships of the Lee family's journey to America.
9. How is the importance of culture to healing being recognized on a wider basis?
10. Explain the misunderstanding about why Lia's parents thought she was being transferred to a different hospital in Chapter 11.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the misunderstandings and problems that occur for the Lee's when they first take Lia to Merced hospital.
Essay Topic 2
What kinds of problems do the lack of cross cultural communication between doctors and the Hmong people present? Be sure to mention both verbal and nonverbal communication.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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