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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Ladder to the Light, A Series of Hinged Turning Points, Chapter 7, Fire and Ice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What generalization does Williams say should be fought?
(a) Black as good and white as bad.
(b) White as racist.
(c) Black as bad and white as good.
(d) Black as perfect.

2. What does Williams say the liberal understand freedom as?
(a) Freedom of association.
(b) The right to bear arms.
(c) Freedom of speech.
(d) Freedom of religion.

3. Where was Williams briefly detained?
(a) California.
(b) Alabama.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) New York.

4. What does Williams argue capitalism did to things that properly had no price?
(a) Made them worthless.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Failed to put a price on them.
(d) It turned them into items exchanged and owned.

5. What university did Williams attend according to Part II, Chapter 4?
(a) University of Wisconsin Law.
(b) Boston College Law.
(c) Yale Law.
(d) Harvard Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose arguments on affirmative action did Williams reject?

2. What does Williams argue really happened when the slaves were "freed"?

3. What does Williams argue African-Americans think will happen if they are killed by a white police officer?

4. What did Williams' students often do when she exposed her ideas to them?

5. How does Williams argue about how Americans understood freedom?

(see the answer key)

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