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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author keep records of her interviews for the book?
(a) She take notes.
(b) She records them with a video camera.
(c) They are tape recorded.
(d) She memorizes the notes.

2. What is the English translation of the Hmong phrase "to speak of all kinds of things" reference?
(a) Traditions.
(b) Their shaman.
(c) The past and their ancestors.
(d) Their age.

3. 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 traditional name.
(c) Something about their ancestors.
(d) Something about their age.

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

5. Who is with Foua Lee when she goes through childbirth?
(a) A midwife.
(b) A doctor.
(c) She is surrounded by her other sleeping children.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompted the author to go and meet the Lee family?

2. How does the author work through the barrier in interviewing the family?

3. Why did the Hmong rebel as described in Chapter Two?

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

5. Who is the author of this book?

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