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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the juxtaposition in beliefs is there in regards to touch between American doctors and a txiv neeb?
(a) Txiv neeb rely on touch in their practice.
(b) The Hmong people wish that txiv neebs would rely on touch.
(c) A txiv neeb does not touch his patients, where as doctors rely on a great amount of touch in their practice.
(d) There is no touch in either pratice of doctors or txiv neebs.

2. What does Lia's family believe happened during the door slamming mentioned in Chapter Three?
(a) It made her deaf.
(b) Lia's soul awoke.
(c) Lia's soul flew away because it was so frightening.
(d) It disrupted Lia's ears.

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

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

5. In Chapter Six, what continues to trickle back to the refugee camps?
(a) Unfavorable reports of Americans.
(b) Illness.
(c) Guns.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Hmong people generally think of American physicians in the 1980s?

4. What do American doctors do that in the Hmong's opinion, threaten their lives and their soul?

5. Why did the Hmong people have these feelings about American doctors at that time?

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