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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which hospital was Lia transferred to in Chapter 11?
(a) Valley Children's Hospital.
(b) Merced Children's Hospital.
(c) Lakeview Children's Hospital.
(d) General Hospital.

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

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

4. What is a "txiv neeb" in the Hmong tribe?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A shaman.
(c) An angel.
(d) A midwife.

5. After the door slammed in Chapter Three, the Lees' concern for the daughter was also mixed with what?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger that she could be a txiv neeb.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Pride that she could be a txiv neeb.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many seizures did Lia have over a few months time in Chapter Three?

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

3. When did the Lee family first attempt to leave Laos?

4. What position do mother's use for childbirth?

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

(see the answer key)

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