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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asking someone who is Hmong a question, what will likely be part of their answer?
(a) Something about their ancestors.
(b) Something about their age.
(c) Something about their shaman.
(d) Something about their traditional name.

2. Where were the Hmong considered outsiders?
(a) Eurasia.
(b) Japan.
(c) China.
(d) Turkey.

3. Who died while the Lee's were in the refugee camp?
(a) Lia.
(b) The infant Foua was breastfeeding.
(c) Foua.
(d) Nao.

4. What is a nyias?
(a) Hmong food.
(b) An ornamental Hmong wrap.
(c) A coffin.
(d) Healing Hmong herbs.

5. What was different about Laos than all of its neighbors, as mentioned in Chapter 10?
(a) It was the largest.
(b) Its people all spoke the same language.
(c) It was smaller.
(d) Its people spoke multiple languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Hmong believe illnesses happen?

2. How long did the Lees live in Portland?

3. What problem occurred when the Lee's first went to Merced Community Medical Center with Lia?

4. Who warned Anne Fadiman about pursuing a story about Lia?

5. What happened to Lia's condition after she was sent home under her parent's care?

(see the answer key)

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