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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. Who in the Hmong culture has the highest rank?

2. What is impossible to separate from the past for the Hmong people?

3. What does Lia's family believe happened during the door slamming mentioned in Chapter Three?

4. Before Lia was taken, the family was not given what?

5. What kind of welcome did Anne receive from the clan letters?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the Hmong view the Chinese?

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

4. Who was May Ying Xiong?

5. What did Lia's parents think about Lia's first seizure?

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

7. Explain what the author says is needed in order for an American, used to our fast-paced culture, to talk to a person who is Hmong.

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

9. What was Lia's interaction like with her parents?

10. What was Anne's colleague's reactions to her wanting to investigate the circumstances around Lia's medical care?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What problems does the Hmong people's importance on ancestors and tradition create when having conversations with Americans? Give two examples from the book and explain.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the importance of the traditional burying of the placenta in the Hmong culture. What do the people believe it represents?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the characters of Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp.

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