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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Obama was running for president, Lalami says a women in a town hall told John McCain she could not trust Obama. What reason did she cite for this distrust?
(a) He was Black.
(b) He was too young.
(c) He was not a U.S. citizen.
(d) He was Arab.

2. What percentage of "religious-bias crimes" (14) targeted Muslims in 2007?
(a) 72%.
(b) 2%.
(c) 27%.
(d) 98%.

3. Why did residents of Arivaca, Arizona set up a watch group at a border, according to Lalami in "Borders"?
(a) To help the border agents because they lost funding.
(b) To help immigrants cross over illegally.
(c) Because of an increase in racial profiling.
(d) To stop illegal border crossings.

4. Under which presidential administration was the war in Iraq launched?
(a) Reagan.
(b) Bush.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Clinton.

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

6. 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 stayed away from all indigenous peoples.
(c) They found ways to work with the natives and honor their differences.
(d) They sent indigenous peoples to Europe.

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

8. In "Borders," what example does Lalami cite of the increasingly divisive rhetoric coming from the Trump administration in regards to border walls?
(a) A border wall would separate the educated from the uneducated.
(b) A border wall would separate bad laws from good laws.
(c) A border wall would separate decent people from criminals.
(d) A border wall would separate cleanliness from pollution.

9. What country did ISIS founder Ahmed Fadhil al-Nazal al-Khalaylah go to Afghanistan to help fight against?
(a) Soviet Union.
(b) The United States.
(c) Morocco.
(d) China.

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

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

12. In what year does Laila Lalami say she became a U.S. citizen in "Allegiance"?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2016.
(c) 1994.
(d) 2020.

13. Which Al Quaeda leader did Al-Khalayalah join after his release from prison in 2001?
(a) Tim Osman.
(b) Abu Musab al-Zarquawi.
(c) King Hussein.
(d) Osama bin-Laden.

14. Why was Lalami's mother-in-law living with her at the time of the twin tower attacks?
(a) Lalami needed help with their daughter.
(b) She was suffering dementia.
(c) She had just had knee surgery.
(d) She was in the middle of a divorce.

15. Who shot nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church according to Lalami in "Faith"?
(a) Al-Zarquawi.
(b) Dylann Roof.
(c) Morgan Roof.
(d) Nikolas Cruz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was the case against Amado Martinez-Fuerte?

2. In "Borders," what does Lalami say people are not protected by at U.S. entry points?

3. What did talk show host Bill Maher say on his show that resulted in advertisers pulling their ads?

4. What are some reasons Lalami cites for the Muslim religion being virtually erased after enslaved Muslims were brought to the U.S.?

5. Lalami suggests that a common American perception that Arabs and Muslims are inferior comes from what source?

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