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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in the Hmong culture has the highest rank?
(a) Young men.
(b) Elderly women.
(c) Young women.
(d) Elderly males.

2. What diseases do Hmong people suffer from at a higher rate than others?
(a) Diabetes and tuberculosis.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) The flu.
(d) Lymes Disease.

3. What was Anne instructed on before her visits with Lia's family?
(a) How to talk to Hmong children.
(b) The proper way to speak about the doctors.
(c) How to talk to the leaders of the clan.
(d) The proper etiquette of Hmong conversation.

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

5. Who called the Hmong Miao or Meo?
(a) People in Vietnam.
(b) Americans.
(c) People in Laos.
(d) Chinese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Lia transferred to a different hospital in Chapter 11?

2. Besides language, what else does the cultural barrier make difficult for doctors and Hmong patients?

3. When asking someone who is Hmong a question, what will likely be part of their answer?

4. What does the author say the culture and fate of the Hmong people is seeped in?

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

(see the answer key)

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