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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompted the author to go and meet the Lee family?

2. Why did the Lee's flee their homeland?

3. What is the second set of interviews the author conducts?

4. How old was Lia when the significant door slamming mentioned in Chapter Three happened?

5. What did the Lee's think of western medicine in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. What powers does the Hmong culture believe that a "txiv neeb" shaman has?

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

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

4. What is one major difference between American doctors and a txiv neeb?

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

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

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

8. Describe Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the relationship like between Lia and her parents?

Essay Topic 2

How is the Lee's love for Lia evident in their reaction to Lia's mental regression? What steps do they take to try and heal her?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the characters of Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp.

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