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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Borders," and "Assimilation" .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which Al Quaeda leader did Al-Khalayalah join after his release from prison in 2001?
(a) King Hussein.
(b) Osama bin-Laden.
(c) Tim Osman.
(d) Abu Musab al-Zarquawi.

5. How is Melilla's border different from when Lalami was a child?
(a) They let people pass through even without papers today.
(b) There is no longer a fence.
(c) There is no more border, as it is no longer owned by Spain.
(d) It now has metal fences and patrol guards.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Lalami ends the chapter, "Allegiance," stating that "there is nothing more American" (28) than doing what?

4. In "Borders," what does Lalami say grew after Spain transitioned from a dictatorship to a democracy starting in 1975?

5. Which presidential administration does Lalami cite as starting the war on drugs, which resulted in mass incarceration of Black Americans?

(see the answer key)

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