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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of medicine do the Hmong allow themselves to rely on?
(a) Vitamins.
(b) Antibiotics.
(c) Shots.
(d) Aromatherapies.

3. What did the physicians in the refugee camps in Chapter Six think of the how the Hmong people perceived them?
(a) They didn't care.
(b) They had no idea.
(c) They hated it.
(d) They liked it.

4. What did Hmong people generally think of American physicians in the 1980s?
(a) They thought they were dumb.
(b) They distrusted them.
(c) They thought they were evil.
(d) They were in awe of them.

5. Why did the Hmong rebel as described in Chapter Two?
(a) Because they needed food.
(b) Because of the prestige given to them.
(c) Because of the intrusion of the Chinese.
(d) Because they did not agree with their morals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Hmong believe illnesses happen?

2. How does the author keep records of her interviews for the book?

3. In western medicine, what is "quag dab peg"?

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

5. Where were the Hmong considered outsiders?

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