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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is impossible to separate from the past for the Hmong people?
(a) Myths.
(b) The war.
(c) Religon.
(d) Their current state.

2. How does the author work through the barrier in interviewing the family?
(a) Takes writing classes.
(b) She uses an interpreter.
(c) Works through rough deadlines.
(d) Gets her publisher to pay for travel.

3. 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 did not believe in anything but shaman.
(c) They did not think the doctors believed in the same things they did.
(d) They had heard stories written in a book.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was not present when Lia was removed from the home?

2. How did the Lee's treat Anne?

3. What complicated the process of putting a IV in Lia when she was taken to the hospital, as described in Chapter Five?

4. What was the only instrument the Lee family treasured?

5. What is the juxtaposition in beliefs is there in regards to touch between American doctors and a txiv neeb?

(see the answer key)

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