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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say the culture and fate of the Hmong people is seeped in?
(a) The war.
(b) Myths.
(c) Years of tradition.
(d) Religon.

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

3. 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) She memorizes the notes.
(d) They are tape recorded.

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

5. What barrier does the author have in interviewing the family featured in the book?
(a) Geographical distance.
(b) Her writing ability.
(c) Language.
(d) Time constraints.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who called the Hmong Miao or Meo?

2. Where are the Hmong thought to have arisen?

3. What is impossible to separate from the past for the Hmong people?

4. What is a "txiv neeb" in the Hmong tribe?

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

(see the answer key)

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