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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much was the rent which Lalami and her boyfriend shared when she moved out of Koreatown to a better area?
(a) $750.
(b) $1200.
(c) $900.
(d) $1700.

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

3. What did the Bush administration claim about John McCain in 2000 which lost him the vote in South Carolina?
(a) He cheated on his wife with a Black woman.
(b) He had not paid taxes for over 10 years.
(c) He was not a United States.
(d) He fathered a Black child out of wedlock.

4. How does Lalami say her editor responded when a famous columnist asked her to sit on his lap?
(a) He fired the columnist.
(b) He laughed.
(c) He told Lalami she should do what she is told.
(d) He told the columnist to be respectul.

5. What event does Lalami believe got her fired from her first post-grad school job in L.A.?
(a) She refused to go on a date with her editor.
(b) She missed several important deadlines.
(c) She refused to hug a TV producer.
(d) She was almost always late for work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What race does Lalami say constitutes the majority of welfare recipients in "Caste"?

2. What was Lalami's brother required to do as an adolescent that Lalami was not?

3. What did many Republicans conclude about Christine Blasey Ford's testimony?

4. What year does Christine Blasey Ford say the event in her testimony occurred?

5. How much do Hispanic women make per every dollar a white man makes, according to Lalami in "Caste"?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Lalami in "Tribe," how are white people and nonwhite people treated differently in public spaces?

2. What happened to Lalami at the Casablanca office, the progressive paper she worked for after college?

3. Why do you think Lalami did not tell anyone about the flea infestation in her first apartment in Koreatown?

4. What does Lalami say at the end of "Caste" in regards to the level of wealth men like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett have?

5. In what ways were welfare recipients in California treated as criminals, according to Lalami in "Caste"?

6. How did Lalami's parents' expectations of her begin to differ from that of her brother when she reached adolescence?

7. Who coined the term "white fragility," and what does it mean?

8. What does Lalami suggest Tom's treatment of Jim Huckleberry Finn represents at the start of "Tribe"?

9. In "Tribe," what is Lalami's response to those white people, typically poor or recent immigrants, who claim to not benefit from white privilege?

10. How did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fund her run for office?

(see the answer keys)

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