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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) 50%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 4%.
(d) 85%.

2. In 1992, Pat Buchanan ran for the Republican nomination saying he was focused on preserving what?
(a) American nationalism.
(b) Our Western heritage.
(c) American prosperity.
(d) Multiculturalism.

3. When a woman in the audience asks Lalami about her upbringing in Morocco, what topic did the conversation shift to?
(a) Moroccan feminist scholars.
(b) Moroccan politics.
(c) ISIS.
(d) Moroccan cuisine.

4. What author does Lalami quote as saying, "How extremely expensive it is to be poor" (129)?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Richard Wright.

5. In "Border," Lalami writes that by 1953 the border zone was expanded from 25 miles to how may miles?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 75.
(d) 35.

Short Answer 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?

2. Which group was stopped the most at the Arivaca, Arizona checkpoint?

3. What is one reason Lalami offers for why countries build border walls?

4. In "Faith," Lalami cites an article in Dabiq magazined entitled "The Extinction of the Gray Zone." What did this article praise?

5. What is Lalami doing at the start of "Faith" when a woman in the audience asked about her upbringing in Morocco?

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