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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Allegiance," how many leads does Lalami say the NYPD Demographics Unit generated in six years?
(a) Dozens.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Zero.
(d) Thousands.

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

3. What year did Arabs begin to petition for their own separate box on the U.S. census?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2019.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1990.

4. What border wall does Lalami say Nixon condemned during his presidency?
(a) The Mexico-United States Border Wall.
(b) The Berlin Wall in Germany.
(c) The Great Wall of China.
(d) The Melilla border wall in Morocco.

5. In "Assimilation," Lalami cites a New York Times article complaining that Chinese people do not assimilate like other cultures did. What year was this article published?
(a) 2009.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1790.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Lalami states that Trump's Muslim ban was another another attempt to maintain what?

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

5. What does Lalami say happened as a result of the crack epidemic in the 1980s?

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