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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 happened on that day that Lia's doctors said they dreaded in Chapter 11?
(a) Lia was given back to her parents.
(b) Lia suffered her last seizure, leading to her death.
(c) Lia's family refused to bring her to the hospital.
(d) Lia's family was sent back to Laos.

2. What was lacking in the refugee camp?
(a) Food.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Shelter.
(d) Water.

3. When did the Lee family first attempt to leave Laos?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1986.

4. In Merced, CA, how many residents are Hmong?
(a) One out of every 12 residents is Hmong.
(b) One out of every five residents is Hmong.
(c) 90 percent.
(d) One out of every six residents is Hmong.

5. How many different clans existed in Merced?
(a) 24.
(b) 4.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Merced's Health department complete training in advocacy and cultural skills?

2. After how many more years did the Lee's consider leaving again?

3. How are the inhabitants of Laos characterized?

4. When did the Lee family arrive in America?

5. What happened to the son who had leukemia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What ended the Hmong's peaceful life in the mountains?

3. Describe America's situation with Hmong immigrants.

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

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

6. After arriving in America, what were considered new concepts to Hmong people like the Lees?

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

8. Explain the misunderstanding about why Lia's parents thought she was being transferred to a different hospital in Chapter 11.

9. Describe Dang Moua.

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

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