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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 was the profession of one of Williams' student's fathers according to Part I, Chapter 2?
(a) Slumlord.
(b) Slave owner.
(c) Trucker.
(d) Lawyer.

2. What does Williams say added complexities to her opinions?
(a) Race.
(b) Her student's opinions.
(c) Gender.
(d) Prejudice.

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

4. What does Williams want to show about legal language?
(a) It flattens complex issues.
(b) It is reprehensible.
(c) It is necessary.
(d) It protect the whites in power.

5. What does Williams say the image of peaceful white community being interrupted by a black presence did to blacks?
(a) It made them mistrustful.
(b) It dehumanized them.
(c) It made them sad.
(d) It made them mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What answer did Williams give to the one who questioned her account in the book?

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

3. What does Williams say the liberal understand freedom as?

4. What wasn't binding during slavery?

5. What does Williams say small businesses used to rationalize the changes in the mid 80's?

(see the answer key)

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