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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did talk show host Bill Maher say on his show that resulted in advertisers pulling their ads?
(a) Muslims are not all terrorists.
(b) The terrorists were not cowards.
(c) All Muslims are terrorists.
(d) All Muslims were cowards.

2. What country did ISIS founder Ahmed Fadhil al-Nazal al-Khalaylah go to Afghanistan to help fight against?
(a) The United States.
(b) Soviet Union.
(c) China.
(d) Morocco.

3. What did someone ask Lalami via email after her first book was published?
(a) If she was a Muslim or a human being.
(b) If she was related to any terrorists.
(c) If she was a terrorist.
(d) If she was with the U.S. or against them.

4. Under which presidential administration was the war in Iraq launched?
(a) Clinton.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Bush.
(d) Reagan.

5. What is one thing George W. Bush did, which Lalami suggests made Muslims feel "seen and heard for the first time" (8) in "Allegiance"?
(a) He brought to light the media's negative portrayal of Muslims.
(b) He nominated the first Muslim Supreme Court justice.
(c) He nominated a Muslim Vice President.
(d) He invited Talat Othman to deliver Muslim prayer at the Republican National Convention.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lalaimi come to the United States to study?

2. Which United States presidential administration does Lalami say helped to fund the Mujahideen when ISIS leaders joined them in Afghanistan?

3. Which presidential administration does Lalami cite as starting the war on drugs, which resulted in mass incarceration of Black Americans?

4. Lalami ends the chapter, "Allegiance," stating that "there is nothing more American" (28) than doing what?

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

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