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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Foua rely on her children to shop at the market?
(a) She was allergic to the food.
(b) She was intimidated.
(c) Because she never learned English.
(d) Because she was afraid of Americans.

2. Why do the Hmong believe illnesses happen?
(a) Because you have done something wrong.
(b) They arise from the spiritual realm.
(c) Because of physical reasons.
(d) They are hand picked people by the shaman to get sick.

3. Who took the time to solicit the Lees opinions about their daughter's health?
(a) Neil.
(b) Anne's colleagues.
(c) Peggy.
(d) Jeanine.

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

5. What is the juxtaposition in beliefs is there in regards to touch between American doctors and a txiv neeb?
(a) The Hmong people wish that txiv neebs would rely on touch.
(b) Txiv neeb rely on touch in their practice.
(c) There is no touch in either pratice of doctors or txiv neebs.
(d) A txiv neeb does not touch his patients, where as doctors rely on a great amount of touch in their practice.

Short Answer Questions

1. When they arrived in America, who did the Lee's seek help from?

2. When did the Lee family arrive in America?

3. What question did the Hmong people have about surgery in Chapter Four, one that sounds absurd to American people?

4. How did the Lee's feel when Lia was returned home from foster care?

5. What did Hmong people generally think of American physicians in the 1980s?

(see the answer key)

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