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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. In "Tribe," who does Lalami say is the only constituency Trump never faulted for anything?
(a) Women.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Whites.
(d) Latinx.

2. What race does Lalami say are often characterized as constituting the majority of welfare recipients?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Whites.
(c) Asians.
(d) Latinx.

3. What is something Lalami says all citizens should have access to at the end of "Do Not Despair This Country"?
(a) A living wage.
(b) A nice car.
(c) A furnished home.
(d) A travel stipend.

4. In "Caste," what does Lalami say about women and silence?
(a) Silence is considered a natural condition of women.
(b) The feminist movement put an end to the history of silencing women.
(c) Women are encouraged to speak up and speak out.
(d) Silent women are looked upon with suspicion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lalami cite in "Caste" as an anomaly for funding her own campaign with bartending money and individual donors?

2. Lalami states that Trump's Muslim ban was another another attempt to maintain what?

3. In "Caste," what does Lalami cite as an example of policy which worked to oppress the Black vote?

4. What similarity does Lalami note between Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh's testimony?

5. How much was the rent which Lalami and her boyfriend shared when she moved out of Koreatown to a better area?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the TV producer at Channel One where Lalami worked after grad school. How does she think her firing had to do with him?

2. 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?

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

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

5. In "Tribe," how does Lalami define what she calls "white anxiety" (97)?

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

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

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

9. Aside from race, what are other conditions Lalami says impacts a citizens relationship with the state in "Do Not Despair This Country"?

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

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