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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. How are the inhabitants of Laos characterized?
(a) By what they eat.
(b) By the altitude at which they live.
(c) By how they talk.
(d) By what kind of house they have.

2. What kind of doctor might have made the Lees more comfortable?
(a) Two male doctors.
(b) A Hmong doctor.
(c) A shaman.
(d) A female doctor.

3. How many other refugees did the Lee family leave Laos with in their second attempt?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 40.
(c) 400.
(d) 4.

4. In Chapter 17, whose son is diagnosed with leukemia?
(a) Jeanine's.
(b) Dang Moua's.
(c) Foua's.
(d) Neil and Peggy's.

5. How does Chapter 19 open?
(a) With the family preparing for a traditional shaman healing ceremony.
(b) With Neil receiving an award.
(c) With Lia's 19th birthday celebration.
(d) With Lia's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say any person, when working with someone from another ethnic background, should have the responsibility of doing?

2. The area in Merced occupied by the Hmong was once known as what?

3. When did the Lee family arrive in America?

4. What did tests conclude in Chapter 11 about Lia's anticonvulsant medication?

5. If healthy communication existed from the beginning, what does the author say in Chapter 18 might have been very different?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the importance of culture to healing being recognized on a wider basis?

2. Why did Nao and Foua Lee want Lia to return to Merced in Chapter 11?

3. Describe the care of Lia by her parents in Chapter 15.

4. Describe the txiv neeb healing ceremony in Chapter 19.

5. What is Merced, CA like in terms of its Hmong population?

6. How did Nao view Lia's medications in Chapter 13?

7. Describe Dang Moua.

8. How did the Hmong people show how they were accustomed to life in the mountains?

9. Explain the hardships of the Lee family's journey to America.

10. Explain Lia's condition after she is released from the hospital under the care of her parents?

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