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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to six of the Lee children before the family immigrated to America?
(a) They were kidnapped.
(b) They were lost.
(c) They died.
(d) They moved to Thailand.

3. Who is the author of this book?
(a) Mai Neng Moua.
(b) Greg Mortenson.
(c) Jodi Picoult.
(d) Anne Fadiman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did some of the Hmong go after they were divided?

2. Where was Lia born?

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

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

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

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