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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lalami say she observed in Marfa, where she arrived after being stopped at the Sierra Blanca border?
(a) Despite the border wall the town was full of immigrants.
(b) Border agents were everywhere.
(c) People did not know there were checkpoints throughout the United States.
(d) The community actively protested the border wall.

2. After a steel fence was built at the California-Mexico border the number of illegal crossings declined, while the number of what increased?
(a) Legal crossings.
(b) Citizenship ceremonies.
(c) Immigrant deaths.
(d) Passport applications.

3. 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.

4. In "Assimilation," what example did Lalami's airplane seatmate give of Koreans in Gardena, California refusing to assimilate?
(a) Koreans still dress like they do in Korea.
(b) Koreans refuse to eat American cuisine.
(c) Koreans refuse to socialize with Americans.
(d) Korean families send their kids to school to learn Korean.

5. Which group was stopped the most at the Arivaca, Arizona checkpoint?
(a) White motorists.
(b) Black motorists.
(c) Asian motorists.
(d) LatinX motorists.

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

3. In "Allegiance," what does Lalami say contradicted Bush's claim that the Islam faith is not "the face of terror"(14)?

4. In "Tribe," what does Lalami say about the way non-dominant languages are viewed in the United States?

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"?

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