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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question did the Hmong people have about surgery in Chapter Four, one that sounds absurd to American people?
(a) They asked why doctors had to wash up before surgery.
(b) They asked if doctors used magic to perform surgery.
(c) They asked why one person would cut into another for the fun of it.
(d) They asked if doctors ate the body parts after surgery.

2. Because of what the Hmong believe about why illnesses happen, what do they question about doctors in Chapter Four?
(a) Why doctors take blood and perform surgery.
(b) Why there are no shamans available.
(c) They don't understand what pills are.
(d) Why doctors must treat you at a hospital.

3. Who is Foua Lee?
(a) Sister of Lia.
(b) Interpreter.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Mother of Lia Lee.

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

5. What relationship does the author describe in the preface?
(a) Her relationship with her daughter.
(b) Her relationship with the doctors.
(c) Her relationship with the publisher.
(d) Her relationship with the Lee family.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the Hmong tradition for delivery of babies?

4. How did the Hmong view the Chinese?

5. Why does that particular type of medicine seem OK to the Hmong?

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