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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Hmong tradition for delivery of babies?
(a) A midwife delivers babies at the hospital.
(b) Babies are delivered in tents.
(c) Babies are delivered in a hospital.
(d) Babies are delivered in their home.

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

3. Where in California did the author travel to meet with the Lee family?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Merced.
(c) San Diego.
(d) San Jose.

4. When did the Lee's flee their homeland?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1975.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author keep records of her interviews for the book?

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

3. When did the author first meet the Lee family?

4. Who is Foua Lee?

5. What does the author say the culture and fate of the Hmong people is seeped in?

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