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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 with the U.S. or against them.
(c) If she was related to any terrorists.
(d) If she was a terrorist.

2. In what state does Lalami say George W. Bush received 45,000 Muslim votes?
(a) Texas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Florida.
(d) California.

3. What does Lalami say happened as a result of the crack epidemic in the 1980s?
(a) Mass incarceration of Black men and women.
(b) Drug prevention education became more prevalent in schools.
(c) The stigma against drug addiction was shattered.
(d) More access to drug treatment.

4. What does Lalami note about the 5 freeway where the Canadian border is?
(a) There are no border patrol agents there.
(b) There is a steel border fence along it.
(c) It is a major route for drug trafficking.
(d) It is falling apart.

5. What term did Peggy McIntosh term which refers to “a range of systemic unearned advantages that benefit white people” (98).
(a) White fragility.
(b) White power.
(c) White privilege.
(d) White anxiety.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lalami suspect audience members would not ask a white writer about?

2. Who shot nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church according to Lalami in "Faith"?

3. In what ways does Lalami say assimilation of immigrants was not required when she was growing up in Morocco?

4. Rather than trying to assimilate to indigenous tribes, what did Europeans and early American settlers do to the natives?

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

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