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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which presidential administration does Lalami cite as starting the war on drugs, which resulted in mass incarceration of Black Americans?
(a) Reagan.
(b) Bush.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Clinton.

2. What did someone ask Lalami via email after her first book was published?
(a) If she was related to any terrorists.
(b) If she was with the U.S. or against them.
(c) If she was a terrorist.
(d) If she was a Muslim or a human being.

3. Under which presidential administration was the war in Iraq launched?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Bush.
(c) Reagan.
(d) Clinton.

4. Lalami ends the chapter, "Allegiance," stating that "there is nothing more American" (28) than doing what?
(a) Wasting money.
(b) Learning from one's mistakes.
(c) Banning immigrants.
(d) Forgetting the past.

5. Which presidential candidate does Lalami say had to go to great lengths to show his love for America?
(a) McCain.
(b) Trump.
(c) Obama.
(d) Bush.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what ways does Lalami say she lives in the so-called gray zone in the chapter "Faith"?

2. What does Lalami say things like poll taxes and literacy tests succeed at doing?

3. When a woman in the audience asks Lalami about her upbringing in Morocco, what topic did the conversation shift to?

4. What country did ISIS founder Ahmed Fadhil al-Nazal al-Khalaylah go to Afghanistan to help fight against?

5. Lalami suggests that a common American perception that Arabs and Muslims are inferior comes from what source?

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