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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the only instrument the Lee family treasured?
(a) A violin.
(b) A flute.
(c) A bamboo instrument.
(d) A clarinet.

2. What was the father of the translator Anne liked best?
(a) A clan leader.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A txiv neeb and a former soldier.
(d) A refuge center worker.

3. What is impossible to separate from the past for the Hmong people?
(a) The war.
(b) Myths.
(c) Their current state.
(d) Religon.

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

5. Who introduced Anne to the leaders of the Hmong clans?
(a) Foua Lee.
(b) Sukey.
(c) The Kordas.
(d) Neil.

Short Answer Questions

1. As described in Chapter Six, what does Hmong culture place emphasis on in terms of rank?

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

3. What did the physicians in the refugee camps in Chapter Six think of the how the Hmong people perceived them?

4. Who became a very good resource for Anne when she was talking to the Lee's?

5. What kind of connotation comes with the Miao or Meo name?

(see the answer key)

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