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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of "Faith," what does Lalami say her daughter told her she wanted to be?
(a) A social justice activist.
(b) President.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A linguist.

2. What group did ISIS founder Ahmed Fadhil al-Nazal al-Khalaylah join after dropping out of high school?
(a) Al Shabab.
(b) Taliban.
(c) Al Quaeda.
(d) The Mujahideen.

3. Rather than trying to assimilate to indigenous tribes, what did Europeans and early American settlers do to the natives?
(a) They found ways to work with the natives and honor their differences.
(b) They sent indigenous peoples to Europe.
(c) They took children from families and sent them to boarding schools to learn their religion and culture.
(d) They stayed away from all indigenous peoples.

4. Lalami ends the chapter "Borders," saying that border walls have been monuments of what?
(a) Triumph.
(b) Disgrace.
(c) Pride.
(d) Failure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lalami note about the 5 freeway where the Canadian border is?

2. What changes does Lalami say began to take place at the borders after 2006 while more border fence was built?

3. In "Assimilation," what example did Lalami's airplane seatmate give of Koreans in Gardena, California refusing to assimilate?

4. In "Caste," what does Lalami say gave her "access to elite groups" (127) despite growing up poor?

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

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