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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 difference between Hmong culture and American in terms of high contact?
(a) It is viewed as intrusive in the Hmong culture.
(b) There is not difference, it is viewed the same in both countries.
(c) It is viewed as respectful in the Hmong culture.
(d) It is viewed as intrusive in American culture.

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

3. In Chapter Four, what did the Hmong people back at the camp ask the woman about American doctors?
(a) Whether shots hurt.
(b) About the accessibility and use of a traditional txiv neeb.
(c) What the hospital beds were like.
(d) If there were any woman doctors.

4. What position do mother's use for childbirth?
(a) Laying down in their own bed.
(b) Laying down in a hospital bed.
(c) Squatting on the floor.
(d) They lay in the bathtub.

5. What is the second set of interviews the author conducts?
(a) Interviews with government officials from Laos.
(b) Interviews with doctors who care for Lia.
(c) Interviews with government officials from America.
(d) Interviews with social workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of medicine do the Hmong allow themselves to rely on?

2. What diseases do Hmong people suffer from at a higher rate than others?

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

4. What happened to six of the Lee children before the family immigrated to America?

5. How did the Lee's treat Anne?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Hmong view the Chinese?

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

3. What did Lia's parents think about Lia's first seizure?

4. How did Anne learn to navigate the cultural differences between her and the Lees?

5. How does war factor in to the history of the Hmong culture?

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

7. How did Lia going to a foster home affect the rest of her clan and their perception of doctors?

8. How do American's react to the sacrificing of animals by the Hmong?

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

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

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