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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. Why do the Hmong believe illnesses happen?

2. Who called the Hmong Miao or Meo?

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

4. Where are the Hmong thought to have arisen?

5. Who is the author of this book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions did the Hmong people have about American doctors and surgery?

2. Describe Neil and Peggy's beliefs as doctors.

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

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

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

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

7. What is the meaning of qaug dab peg and why is it important to the story?

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

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

10. 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.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What importance does the history of the Hmong people, specifically the fact that doctors are not used in the culture and that the Lee family is forced to leave Laos, have to this story?

Essay Topic 2

What kinds of problems do the lack of cross cultural communication between doctors and the Hmong people present? Be sure to mention both verbal and nonverbal communication.

Essay Topic 3

What measures does Anne have to take in order to connect with the Lees and be able to tell their story?

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