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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Americans think of the ritual used in the Lee's celebration?
(a) They like it.
(b) It makes them angry.
(c) They have no feelings about it.
(d) They are uncomfortable with it.

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

3. Why did most of the Hmong people come to America?
(a) Desperation.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Americanization.
(d) Family.

4. In Chapter Four, what did the Hmong people back at the camp ask the woman about American doctors?
(a) What the hospital beds were like.
(b) If there were any woman doctors.
(c) Whether shots hurt.
(d) About the accessibility and use of a traditional txiv neeb.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Hmong people have these feelings about American doctors at that time?

2. Do the Hmong people ever seek the advice of American doctors?

3. Why does that particular type of medicine seem OK to the Hmong?

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

5. What kind of medicine do the Hmong allow themselves to rely on?

(see the answer key)

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