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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the median household income for Black households in 2017?
(a) $63,412.
(b) $40,258.
(c) $87,315.
(d) $25,817.

2. Which group was stopped the most at the Arivaca, Arizona checkpoint?
(a) Asian motorists.
(b) LatinX motorists.
(c) White motorists.
(d) Black motorists.

3. Who does Lalami cite in "Caste" as an anomaly for funding her own campaign with bartending money and individual donors?
(a) Kamal Harris.
(b) Elizabeth Warren.
(c) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
(d) Hillary Clinton.

4. How much was the rent which Lalami and her boyfriend shared when she moved out of Koreatown to a better area?
(a) $1200.
(b) $900.
(c) $750.
(d) $1700.

5. Why did the U.S. repatriate 2 million Mexicans in the 1930s?
(a) Mexico demanded they be sent back.
(b) There was a global pandemic.
(c) They were being blamed for the economic downturn.
(d) They wanted to go home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the strict rules of Islam Lalami says she learned in middle school?

2. What country ruled Morocco when Lalami's mother was born in 1941?

3. In "Borders," what example does Lalami cite of the increasingly divisive rhetoric coming from the Trump administration in regards to border walls?

4. What does Lalami say Muslims in America are required to do after an ISIS attack?

5. Whom did the 1924 Johnson Reed Act ban from immigrating to the United States?

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