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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. Physicians did not recognize what in the Hmong culture?

2. Where was Foua when Lia was taken?

3. Who called the Hmong Miao or Meo?

4. What does Chapter Six say can present as chronic pain in a patient?

5. As mentioned in Chapter Nine, an ordinance was created banning what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain Neil's decision to file a report with Child Protective Services.

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

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

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

6. Describe what the author says in the preface about the insights the taped recordings of interviews offered.

7. How did the Hmong view the Chinese?

8. How did the author overcome barriers to interviewing the Lee family?

9. How did Lia going to a foster home affect the rest of her clan and their perception of doctors?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the characters of Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Why is impaired communication particularly dangerous for the Hmong population? Explain and give a few examples noted in the book,

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