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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 argue had a price under capitalism?
(a) Elections.
(b) Justice.
(c) Free speech.
(d) People's lives.

2. What does Williams argue about the relation between property rights and family liberties African Americans endured under slavery?
(a) It is reversed today.
(b) It still exists today.
(c) It disappeared in 1976.
(d) It is still present in some countries.

3. Whose plight did Williams sympathize with?
(a) Women and African-American.
(b) Poor farmers.
(c) Corporate excecutives.
(d) Women.

4. What common conception does Williams target in her book?
(a) Law is favorable to rich people.
(b) Law is objective.
(c) Laws are written by lawyers.
(d) Law is useless.

5. What did Williams use her story about the store to illustrate?
(a) The 1980's depression.
(b) White people's fear.
(c) Racism.
(d) The privatization of space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say penetrated even the highest levels of culture?

2. What does Williams say the image of peaceful white community being interrupted by a black presence did to blacks?

3. What did Williams do with Peter Gabel in Part III, Chapter 8?

4. What does Williams say neutral classifications do?

5. What does Williams say she noticed a year after her entering the same building?

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