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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) Medicine labels written only in English.
(b) Public meetings of the Hmong clans.
(c) Sacrifices of animals.
(d) Shaman.

2. What did the medical chart at Merced say about Lia and her mother?
(a) It said she was a problem patient.
(b) It did not realize she had been to the facility many times.
(c) It said her parents could speak English.
(d) It noted her close bond with her mother.

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

4. As mentioned in Chapter Six, what would have been a more agreeable plan to the Hmong in terms of treating illness?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Surgery.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Sleep.

5. Where was Foua when Lia was taken?
(a) Visiting relatives.
(b) Next door.
(c) Crying in the bedroom.
(d) In the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lia doing when she hit her head severely in Chapter Nine?

2. What did doctors fear would happen if they could not get Lia's seizures under control?

3. Who served as the Lee's advocate when no one else would?

4. When asking someone who is Hmong a question, what will likely be part of their answer?

5. When did the author first meet the Lee family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Neil and Peggy's beliefs as doctors.

2. Why was impaired communication particularly dangerous for Hmong people?

3. Explain Neil's decision to file a report with Child Protective Services.

4. Describe Foua and Nao Kao.

5. Why didn't American physicians, just out of college in the 1980s, have a sense of cross cultural communication?

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

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

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

9. What happened after Neil filed the report with Child Protective Services?

10. What things did the Hmong people hear about American doctors that made them distrust them?

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