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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The Hmong people wish that txiv neebs would rely on touch.
(d) A txiv neeb does not touch his patients, where as doctors rely on a great amount of touch in their practice.

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

3. Besides language, what else does the cultural barrier make difficult for doctors and Hmong patients?
(a) Calling on the phone.
(b) Non-verbal, interpersonal communication.
(c) Talking to nurses.
(d) Filling out forms.

4. 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.

5. What did the physicians in the refugee camps in Chapter Six think of the how the Hmong people perceived them?
(a) They had no idea.
(b) They didn't care.
(c) They hated it.
(d) They liked it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who introduced Anne to the leaders of the Hmong clans?

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

4. Why did Lia's family think she was transferred to a different hospital in Chapter 11?

5. What was the father of the translator Anne liked best?

(see the answer key)

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