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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What complicated the process of putting a IV in Lia when she was taken to the hospital, as described in Chapter Five?
(a) She was afraid of needles.
(b) She would run away.
(c) She was underweight.
(d) She was overweight.

2. How does a txiv neeb reach a diagnosis?
(a) A txiv neeb senses things in the spiritual world.
(b) He or she asks their colleagues.
(c) They ask the village for their feelings.
(d) He or she asks pointed questions.

3. What is the Hmong tradition for delivery of babies?
(a) Babies are delivered in their home.
(b) Babies are delivered in tents.
(c) A midwife delivers babies at the hospital.
(d) Babies are delivered in a hospital.

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

5. Where was Lia born?
(a) Thailand.
(b) Laos.
(c) America.
(d) Minnesota.

Short Answer Questions

1. In western medicine, what is "quag dab peg"?

2. Why do the Hmong believe illnesses happen?

3. What happened to six of the Lee children before the family immigrated to America?

4. What did Lia do when she seemed to know a seizure was coming?

5. What was the prescription mentioned in Chapter Five that Lia took most often?

(see the answer key)

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