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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Lee family arrive in America?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1988.

2. What prompted the author to go and meet the Lee family?
(a) Rumors of a cultural collision.
(b) A strange medical collision.
(c) A doctor's malpratice.
(d) A story of a sick girl.

3. How does the author work through the barrier in interviewing the family?
(a) Takes writing classes.
(b) Gets her publisher to pay for travel.
(c) She uses an interpreter.
(d) Works through rough deadlines.

4. When asking someone who is Hmong a question, what will likely be part of their answer?
(a) Something about their traditional name.
(b) Something about their shaman.
(c) Something about their ancestors.
(d) Something about their age.

5. Where were the Hmong considered outsiders?
(a) Eurasia.
(b) China.
(c) Japan.
(d) Turkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Lee's homeland?

2. What is the Hmong tradition for delivery of babies?

3. What is the second set of interviews the author conducts?

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

5. How many children does Foua Lee have before the childbirth we read about in Chapter One?

(see the answer key)

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