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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 traditional name.
(c) Something about their ancestors.
(d) Something about their shaman.

2. In the Hmong tradition, what is considered an illness of honor?
(a) Measles.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) The flu.
(d) Epilepsy.

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

4. What happened to six of the Lee children before the family immigrated to America?
(a) They moved to Thailand.
(b) They were kidnapped.
(c) They were lost.
(d) They died.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of this book?

2. What did the Lee's think of western medicine in Chapter Three?

3. Why did the Lee's flee their homeland?

4. What barrier does the author have in interviewing the family featured in the book?

5. What kind of connotation comes with the Miao or Meo name?

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