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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 does Williams say she noticed a year after her entering the same building?
(a) A security guard.
(b) The same "bum."
(c) A new security pad at the entrance.
(d) The same children.

2. What does Williams say some people thought when she told her story about the store?
(a) She did not know why she was refused access.
(b) She unfairly puts the salesman on trial.
(c) She made things up.
(d) She was singled out for being a woman.

3. How does Williams argue about how Americans understood freedom?
(a) As a concept.
(b) As an excuse for war.
(c) In an abstract way.
(d) As political freedom.

4. How does Williams describe as abstract law?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) The appeals system.
(c) Justice.
(d) The court system.

5. Whose story does Williams mention in Part III, Chapter 7?
(a) Martha Eleor.
(b) Eleanor Bumpurs.
(c) Martha Stanford.
(d) Sophie Freeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say the examples she gave in Part II, Chapter 4 illustrate?

2. What university did Williams attend according to Part II, Chapter 4?

3. Whose arguments on affirmative action did Williams reject?

4. What does Williams say happened to the Jewish student?

5. Who was the "bum" referred by the children?

(see the answer key)

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