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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion was Lalami's mother forced to follow after being sent to an orphanage after her parents died?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Islam.

2. What does Lalami say things like poll taxes and literacy tests succeed at doing?
(a) Repressing the Black and brown vote.
(b) Ensuring high voter turnout.
(c) Repressing the female vote.
(d) Ensuring voter equity.

3. What does Lalami receive in exchange for her alien-registration card at her citizenship ceremony?
(a) An American eagle token.
(b) Sheet music for the Star Spangled Banner.
(c) A slice of Apple pie.
(d) A miniature American flag.

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

5. 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 not a U.S. citizen.
(b) He was too young.
(c) He was Black.
(d) He was Arab.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asked Lalaimi's husband how many camels he had to trade to make her his wife in "Allegiance"?

2. Lalami cites a poll at the end of "Faith," in which how many people said they would not vote for a Muslim presidential candidate?

3. What is Lalami doing at the start of "Faith" when a woman in the audience asked about her upbringing in Morocco?

4. What did someone ask Lalami via email after her first book was published?

5. Under which presidential administration was the war in Iraq launched?

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