The Spirit Catches You Quiz

They believe a person's soul returns to the placenta and puts it on before journeying to the place where it will be reborn.

A shaman who can negotiate with the spirits for his patients' health.

She was impressed by the number of people there to help her and complained only about the food.

<p>At a soul-calling ceremony about a month after her birth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Live chickens were slaughtered and their bodies examined for signs that Lia's soul was happy to reside in her body and her name was a good one.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>China.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They were offended by the fact that the Hmong preferred to keep to themselves and maintain their own customs rather than assimilating.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>India</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They would rather fight than take orders or surrender.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They were concerned for her health but also proud, as epileptics are often chosen to be shamans and can see things others cannot.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The majority of patients are on public assistance and lack private insurance to pay for treatment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lia's seizures had stopped by the time she got to the hospital, and there was no interpreter to explain what had happened.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ceremonies conducted by a shaman, dermal treatments, and herbs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He delivered information using characters from Hmong folktales.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A condition in which an epileptic remains unconscious for twenty minutes or longer as he or she has a seizure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Neil Ernst and Peggy Phelp.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They showed no deference to the doctors' many years of schooling, awards, and time spent educating themselves about the Hmong.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He felt that her parents were jeopardizing her health by not following her medical regimen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nothing in the US is worth defending.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spirit catches you and you fall down.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She didn't translate statements, came with CPS worker to get Lia, married to Nao Kao's nephew.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hu plig, or soul calling.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is the social worker who makes Lia her personal cause.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are Lia's main doctors at the Merced Community Medical Center.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are Lia's parents who love her very much.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is the author and narrator of the book.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He wants to bind the soul to the body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cloth baby carriers embroidered with soul-retaining motifs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The chief resident of family practice at the country hospital in Merced.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fifteen children, eight of whom survived.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reduce the neeb's effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Child Protective Services (CPS) caseworker assigned to Lia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The family practice resident on call when Lia was brought to the emergency room.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A popular doctor among the Hmong in Merced.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lia's foster parents during the year she was placed in foster care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Hmong interpreter who came to the Lee's home with Child Protective Services.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fadiman's 'cultural broker' who taught her about the Hmong.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One of Lia's older sisters.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lia's neurologist at Valley Children's Hospital.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bacillus caused septic shock.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Leader of Hmong forces in Laos.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first Hmong to relocate to Merced, CA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two Hmong leaders who taught Fadiman about the Hmong.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An ethnographer who worked at the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Traditional healing techniques such as acupuncture, massage, and scraping the skin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An epileptic seizure associated with a high body temperature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A full-blown seizure in which electrical disturbance extends throughout a wide area of the brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A soul-calling ceremony, in which a baby's name is officially conferred.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A beef stew made from cow's intestines, heart, liver, and lungs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Healing spirit or shamanic ritual.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A traditional Hmong textile art comprised of geometric or organic designs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Soul.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hmong musical instrument with 6 bamboo tubes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A potentially fatal medical condition resulting from severe infection and sepsis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A condition in which seizures continue one after another with no intervals of consciousness.</p> Signup and view all the answers