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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Amado Martinez-Fuerte charged with?
(a) Trying to submit a phony passport.
(b) Illegally transporting aliens.
(c) Drug trafficking.
(d) Refusing to cooperate with border agents.

2. In 2010, after campaign for a write in option on the census marked "Other" what were Arabs informed would happen if they checked other and wrote in Arab?
(a) They would be marked as white.
(b) They would be marked as Arab.
(c) They would be marked as Black.
(d) Their census data would not be counted.

3. What changes does Lalami say began to take place at the borders after 2006 while more border fence was built?
(a) The border became more militarized.
(b) Mexico-American relations became more strained.
(c) Border agents were laid off.
(d) Illegal crossings increased.

4. What two adjectives does Lalami use to describe the "fiction" (112) of race?
(a) Alarming and Useless.
(b) Foolish and Crippling.
(c) Alluring and Frail.
(d) Seductive and Elastic.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Faith," Lalami cites an article in Dabiq magazined entitled "The Extinction of the Gray Zone." What did this article praise?

2. What famous American was one of the most vocal in questioning Obama's citizenship?

3. At the start of "Borders," Lalami describes being stopped at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint in what state?

4. In what year does Laila Lalami say she became a U.S. citizen in "Allegiance"?

5. Whom did the 1924 Johnson Reed Act ban from immigrating to the United States?

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