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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author work through the barrier in interviewing the family?
(a) She uses an interpreter.
(b) Takes writing classes.
(c) Gets her publisher to pay for travel.
(d) Works through rough deadlines.

2. Who called the Hmong Miao or Meo?
(a) Chinese.
(b) People in Vietnam.
(c) Americans.
(d) People in Laos.

3. What position do mother's use for childbirth?
(a) Squatting on the floor.
(b) Laying down in a hospital bed.
(c) They lay in the bathtub.
(d) Laying down in their own bed.

4. How does the author keep records of her interviews for the book?
(a) She take notes.
(b) She memorizes the notes.
(c) She records them with a video camera.
(d) They are tape recorded.

5. Who is the author of this book?
(a) Mai Neng Moua.
(b) Anne Fadiman.
(c) Greg Mortenson.
(d) Jodi Picoult.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Lee family arrive in America?

2. What relationship does the author describe in the preface?

3. When does the Hmong culture utilize a txiv neeb?

4. What kind of connotation comes with the Miao or Meo name?

5. How did the Hmong view the Chinese?

(see the answer key)

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