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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times was Lia admitted to Merced between the ages of eight months and four and a half years?
(a) 7 times.
(b) 70 times.
(c) 17 times.
(d) Once.

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 ate the body parts after surgery.
(b) They asked if doctors used magic to perform surgery.
(c) They asked why doctors had to wash up before surgery.
(d) They asked why one person would cut into another for the fun of it.

3. In the fast-paced nature of America, speaking with the Hmong requires what?
(a) Paper and pencil.
(b) Patience.
(c) Interpreters.
(d) Tape recorders.

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

5. Why did the Lee's flee their homeland?
(a) Their home was burned.
(b) Because they had relatives in the United States.
(c) They wanted to live an American life.
(d) Because of war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who oversaw Lia's care at Merced?

2. At the end of Chapter Three, Lia had a diagnosis of what?

3. Why does that particular type of medicine seem OK to the Hmong?

4. Why did the Hmong people have these feelings about American doctors at that time?

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

(see the answer key)

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