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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prompted the author to go and meet the Lee family?
(a) A story of a sick girl.
(b) A doctor's malpratice.
(c) Rumors of a cultural collision.
(d) A strange medical collision.

2. Who warned Anne Fadiman about pursuing a story about Lia?
(a) The doctors.
(b) Lia's clan.
(c) Her colleagues.
(d) The Kordas.

3. Who introduced Anne to the leaders of the Hmong clans?
(a) Sukey.
(b) Foua Lee.
(c) The Kordas.
(d) Neil.

4. What is the second set of interviews the author conducts?
(a) Interviews with social workers.
(b) Interviews with government officials from Laos.
(c) Interviews with government officials from America.
(d) Interviews with doctors who care for Lia.

5. After how many more years did the Lee's consider leaving again?
(a) One.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. When asking someone who is Hmong a question, what will likely be part of their answer?

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

3. Why was it nearly impossible for the doctors to satisfy the Hmong?

4. Why did the Hmong rebel as described in Chapter Two?

5. What do the interviews described in the preface offer a glimpse into?

(see the answer key)

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