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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accompanied Lalami to her citizenship ceremony at the Pomona Fairplex in Los Angeles?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her sister.

2. What two adjectives does Lalami use to describe the "fiction" (112) of race?
(a) Alarming and Useless.
(b) Seductive and Elastic.
(c) Foolish and Crippling.
(d) Alluring and Frail.

3. Why did the U.S. repatriate 2 million Mexicans in the 1930s?
(a) Mexico demanded they be sent back.
(b) They wanted to go home.
(c) There was a global pandemic.
(d) They were being blamed for the economic downturn.

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

5. At the end of "Allegiance," Lalami says that the place where she received her citizenship was used for what during World War II?
(a) Making weapons.
(b) Japanese internment.
(c) Military training.
(d) It served as a food pantry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lalami say is the "absence of race" (94) in "Tribe"?

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

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

4. What is one reason Lalami is taken aback when the woman in the audience at her reading of her novel asked about ISIS?

5. In what ways does Lalami say she lives in the so-called gray zone in the chapter "Faith"?

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