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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Hmong view the Chinese?
(a) As kindred spirits.
(b) As meddling people.
(c) As fierce enemies.
(d) As ghosts.

2. What question did the Hmong people have about surgery in Chapter Four, one that sounds absurd to American people?
(a) They asked if doctors used magic to perform surgery.
(b) They asked why one person would cut into another for the fun of it.
(c) They asked if doctors ate the body parts after surgery.
(d) They asked why doctors had to wash up before surgery.

3. What did the medical chart at Merced say about Lia and her mother?
(a) It did not realize she had been to the facility many times.
(b) It noted her close bond with her mother.
(c) It said she was a problem patient.
(d) It said her parents could speak English.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hmong people generally think of American physicians in the 1980s?

2. After the door slammed in Chapter Three, the Lees' concern for the daughter was also mixed with what?

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

4. What did the Lee's think of western medicine in Chapter Three?

5. Why do the Hmong believe illnesses happen?

(see the answer key)

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