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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 kind of medicine do the Hmong allow themselves to rely on?
(a) Shots.
(b) Vitamins.
(c) Antibiotics.
(d) Aromatherapies.

2. What do Americans think of the ritual used in the Lee's celebration?
(a) They have no feelings about it.
(b) It makes them angry.
(c) They like it.
(d) They are uncomfortable with it.

3. At the end of Chapter Three, Lia had a diagnosis of what?
(a) Developmental delays.
(b) Sinus infection.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Flu.

4. What complication occurred because of the breathing issue during seizures, as described in Chapter Five?
(a) Her convulsions would get worse.
(b) She would begin to throw up.
(c) Her brain lost oxygen, which can cause permanent damage.
(d) She would have enough seizure.

5. Who became a very good resource for Anne when she was talking to the Lee's?
(a) The translators.
(b) Foua Lee.
(c) Her colleagues.
(d) Sukey Waller, a psychologist who worked regularly with Hmong clients.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Hmong rebel as described in Chapter Two?

2. Where were the Hmong considered outsiders?

3. What color was the chair the author sat in for her interviews with the Lee family?

4. What was the prescription mentioned in Chapter Five that Lia took most often?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Give an example of how the Hmong are clearly tied to their past.

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

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

5. Why did the nurses at Merced recall Lia with mixed emotions?

6. How did the author overcome barriers to interviewing the Lee family?

7. Who was May Ying Xiong?

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

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

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

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