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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Borders," and "Assimilation" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rather than trying to assimilate to indigenous tribes, what did Europeans and early American settlers do to the natives?
(a) They took children from families and sent them to boarding schools to learn their religion and culture.
(b) They sent indigenous peoples to Europe.
(c) They found ways to work with the natives and honor their differences.
(d) They stayed away from all indigenous peoples.

2. Approximately what percent of enslaved people brought to America does Lalami say were Muslim in "Faith"?
(a) 55%.
(b) 2%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 90%.

3. How is Melilla's border different from when Lalami was a child?
(a) They let people pass through even without papers today.
(b) There is no longer a fence.
(c) It now has metal fences and patrol guards.
(d) There is no more border, as it is no longer owned by Spain.

4. 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) 85%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 4%.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What country did ISIS founder Ahmed Fadhil al-Nazal al-Khalaylah go to Afghanistan to help fight against?

4. Lalami ends the chapter "Borders," saying that border walls have been monuments of what?

5. After Operation Hold the Line apprehensions at the border decreased, what increased?

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