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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Prop 187 would deny undocumented immigrants access to public education and healthcare.
(b) Prop 187 would deny visas to all incoming immigrants.
(c) Prop 187 proposed to deport all undocumented immigrants within five years.
(d) Prop 187 proposed to built a longer wall on the California-Mexico border.

2. What was Amado Martinez-Fuerte charged with?
(a) Refusing to cooperate with border agents.
(b) Illegally transporting aliens.
(c) Drug trafficking.
(d) Trying to submit a phony passport.

3. Whom did the 1924 Johnson Reed Act ban from immigrating to the United States?
(a) Africans.
(b) Mexicans.
(c) Asians.
(d) Muslims.

4. Under which administration was Operation Hold the Line, which allowed for increased Border Patrol presence?
(a) Bush.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Clinton.
(d) Obama.

5. In "Borders," Lalami writes that the Melilla border wall separates what?
(a) Good people from bad people.
(b) Americans from Moroccans.
(c) White people from Black and brown people.
(d) French people from Moroccan people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lalami cites a poll at the end of "Faith," in which how many people said they would not vote for a Muslim presidential candidate?

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

3. What event occurred while Lalami lived in Koreatown which made her feel closer to her neighbors?

4. Under which presidential administration was the war in Iraq launched?

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

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