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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. As mentioned in Chapter Nine, an ordinance was created banning what?
(a) Shaman.
(b) Sacrifices of animals.
(c) Medicine labels written only in English.
(d) Public meetings of the Hmong clans.

2. Who oversaw Lia's care at Merced?
(a) Jeanine Hilt.
(b) Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp.
(c) Anne Fadiman.
(d) The Lees.

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

4. What do American doctors do that in the Hmong's opinion, threaten their lives and their soul?
(a) Take down personal information.
(b) Ask their patients to undress, touch them and perform procedures.
(c) Ask rude questions.
(d) Make them wait.

5. What kind of connotation comes with the Miao or Meo name?
(a) Honor.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Something not favorable.
(d) Prestige.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Lia's social worker?

3. What is the Lee's homeland?

4. As mentioned in Chapter Six, what would have been a more agreeable plan to the Hmong in terms of treating illness?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp.

3. What powers does the Hmong culture believe that a "txiv neeb" shaman has?

4. Describe what the author says in the preface about the insights the taped recordings of interviews offered.

5. How does the author come to know the Lee family?

6. Who do the Lees blame for Lia's mental regression in Chapter Nine?

7. 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.

8. Describe Foua and Nao Kao.

9. Where were the Hmong in the 1980s getting most of their information about American doctors?

10. How did physicians hurt the cycle of rumors and distrust of Americans back in the Hmong refugee camps?

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