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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the English translation of the Hmong phrase "to speak of all kinds of things" reference?
(a) The past and their ancestors.
(b) Their age.
(c) Their shaman.
(d) Traditions.

2. How does a txiv neeb reach a diagnosis?
(a) He or she asks their colleagues.
(b) He or she asks pointed questions.
(c) A txiv neeb senses things in the spiritual world.
(d) They ask the village for their feelings.

3. Where are the Hmong thought to have arisen?
(a) Laos.
(b) Europe.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Eurasia.

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

5. What question did the Hmong people have about surgery in Chapter Four, one that sounds absurd to American people?
(a) They asked if doctors ate the body parts after surgery.
(b) They asked why one person would cut into another for the fun of it.
(c) They asked why doctors had to wash up before surgery.
(d) They asked if doctors used magic to perform surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does that particular type of medicine seem OK to the Hmong?

2. What does the author say the culture and fate of the Hmong people is seeped in?

3. How does the author work through the barrier in interviewing the family?

4. Where was Foua when Lia was taken?

5. What were Anne's expectations about her visits with Lia's family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what the author says is needed in order for an American, used to our fast-paced culture, to talk to a person who is Hmong.

2. What is the meaning of qaug dab peg and why is it important to the story?

3. What is special about the red chair where Anne sat to do her interviews?

4. Describe Foua and Nao Kao.

5. What is one major difference between American doctors and a txiv neeb?

6. Why did the Lees have to leave their homeland of Laos?

7. Describe Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp.

8. What questions did the Hmong people have about American doctors and surgery?

9. What was Lia's interaction like with her parents?

10. In Hmong tradition, how does childbirth differ from here in America?

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