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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem occurred when the Lee's first went to Merced Community Medical Center with Lia?
(a) They had no money.
(b) Lia would not stop crying.
(c) They ran out of gas.
(d) They was a language barrier.

2. In Chapter Four, what did the Hmong people back at the camp ask the woman about American doctors?
(a) If there were any woman doctors.
(b) What the hospital beds were like.
(c) Whether shots hurt.
(d) About the accessibility and use of a traditional txiv neeb.

3. What do American doctors do that in the Hmong's opinion, threaten their lives and their soul?
(a) Ask rude questions.
(b) Ask their patients to undress, touch them and perform procedures.
(c) Take down personal information.
(d) Make them wait.

4. What was another reason to file the child protective services report?
(a) It would mean name recognization for this person.
(b) It would lead to punishment for the Lees.
(c) The person's supervisor would be happy.
(d) It was required by law if this person saw something questionable.

5. What does the author say the culture and fate of the Hmong people is seeped in?
(a) Myths.
(b) The war.
(c) Years of tradition.
(d) Religon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diseases do Hmong people suffer from at a higher rate than others?

2. Why did most of the Hmong people come to America?

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

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

5. What kind of connotation comes with the Miao or Meo name?

(see the answer key)

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