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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What position do mother's use for childbirth?
(a) They lay in the bathtub.
(b) Laying down in a hospital bed.
(c) Squatting on the floor.
(d) Laying down in their own bed.

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

4. Why did the Lee's flee their homeland?
(a) They wanted to live an American life.
(b) Because of war.
(c) Their home was burned.
(d) Because they had relatives in the United States.

5. Why did the Hmong people have these feelings about American doctors at that time?
(a) A Hmong woman came back to a camp with not favorable things to say.
(b) They had heard stories written in a book.
(c) They did not believe in anything but shaman.
(d) They did not think the doctors believed in the same things they did.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of what the Hmong believe about why illnesses happen, what do they question about doctors in Chapter Four?

2. Who did Lia's family believe captured her spirit in Chapter Three?

3. Where are the Hmong thought to have arisen?

4. What is the English translation of the Hmong phrase "to speak of all kinds of things" reference?

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

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