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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, The Incorruptible Simplicity of Being: A String of Crystalline Parables.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Williams say was an important form of oppression?
(a) Black only neighborhoods.
(b) Taxes.
(c) The police.
(d) The image of the black criminal.

2. How many children does Williams say stormed out off the door as she was entering?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

3. Who does Williams say ignored her while she was attending college?
(a) Other women.
(b) Competitive white men.
(c) Her classmates.
(d) White teachers.

4. What does Williams say penetrated even the highest levels of culture?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Lawyers.

5. What does Williams maintain racial construction had?
(a) Great responsibility.
(b) Great power.
(c) Low credibility.
(d) Little power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Williams ethnicity?

2. What does Williams wonder whether a white man would ever do at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10?

3. Whose portrait did the Jewish student in Williams' story deface?

4. What does Williams say the "evidentiary rules" of legitimating turf war had whites believe?

5. Who does Williams say was present in the store that refused her entry?

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