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

2. What was the median household income for white families in 2017?
(a) $61,372.
(b) $25,812.
(c) $45,876.
(d) $98,743.

3. What is one way that Lalami suggests equal voting rights can be achieved?
(a) Banning literacy tests.
(b) Putting an end to poll taxes.
(c) Providing free transpiration on voting days.
(d) Making election days a holiday so people can have paid time off work to vote.

4. What does Lalami say happened as a result of the crack epidemic in the 1980s?
(a) Drug prevention education became more prevalent in schools.
(b) Mass incarceration of Black men and women.
(c) The stigma against drug addiction was shattered.
(d) More access to drug treatment.

5. According to the beginning of "Do Not Despair This Country," who claimed "all men are created equal" (160)?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lalami, the following is a definition of what: “a system that gives members of the dominant group both immediate and generational benefits that are not accessible to members of non-dominant groups” (99).

2. What country does Lalami say tends to place blame on poor people for their state of poverty?

3. What term did Robin DiAngelo term which refers to the umbrage she claims many whites react with when being told that they likely profit from systemic racism?

4. What is a question Lalami says is often asked when women accuse a man of sexual assault years after it is said to have occurred?

5. What does Lalami say happened as a result of the opioid epidemic?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "Tribe," what does Lalami note about how American students are taught about Black figures?

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

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

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

6. In what ways does Thomas Jefferson's claim that "all men are created equal" contradict his life?

7. Despite growing up poor, what advantage did Lalami have in Morocco which she said "granted [her] access to elite groups" (127)?

8. What wealth distribution disparities between Blacks and whites, men and women, does Lalami note at the end of "Caste"?

9. "Inheritance" describes Christine Blasey Ford's testimony. What did she allege happened to her in 1982? Who was the perpetrator?

10. Who coined the term "white privilege," and what does it mean?

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