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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Caste" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason Lalami is taken aback when the woman in the audience at her reading of her novel asked about ISIS?
(a) Lalami began the discussion by saying she did not wish to discuss ISIS.
(b) She had already talked about ISIS at the reading.
(c) She had been in the U.S. for 20 years and ISIS was a recently formed terrorist organization.
(d) Her thoughts on ISIS are clearly laid out in her novel.

2. Who shot nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church according to Lalami in "Faith"?
(a) Nikolas Cruz.
(b) Al-Zarquawi.
(c) Morgan Roof.
(d) Dylann Roof.

3. What year was the case against Amado Martinez-Fuerte?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1976.

4. How many checkpoints like the one in Sierra Blanca does Lalami say are in the United States in the chapter "Borders"?
(a) 653.
(b) 136.
(c) 52.
(d) 13.

5. In "Assimilation," what reason does Lalami cite for why enslaved peoples were not taught to read?
(a) They showed no interest in learning to read.
(b) They already knew how to read.
(c) It was believed that literacy would lead to rebellion.
(d) There were no teachers available.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Martinez-Fuerte case, the Supreme Court ruled it was okay to pull aside people based on what?

2. Why was Lalami's impoverished state during grad school different from others in her apartment building?

3. What author does Lalami quote as saying, "How extremely expensive it is to be poor" (129)?

4. What does Lalami say people from industrialized countries who immigrate are called in "Assimilation"?

5. While Lalami lived in Koreatown, she writes that Govern Pete Wilson ran in favor of Prop 187. What did this policy propose to do in regards to immigrants?

(see the answer key)

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