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

2. Why does Williams say we should avoid neutrality?
(a) African-Americans need to be favorites.
(b) It is not neutral.
(c) Minorities need to be favorites.
(d) It embedded psychic taboos.

3. What conclusion does Williams say she drew from the incident at the store?
(a) Racism was permissible.
(b) Women were discriminated against.
(c) Guns should be controlled.
(d) Buzzers were useless.

4. What does Williams believe that parts of the social contract in the United States involved?
(a) Social control.
(b) Social acceptance.
(c) Social racism.
(d) Social parity.

5. What did Williams' students often do when she exposed her ideas to them?
(a) They left the room.
(b) They listen.
(c) They cried.
(d) Became angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Williams realize during her discussion with Gabel about trust?

2. What does Williams say required enforced equality and affirmative action?

3. What does Williams say some people thought when she told her story about the store?

4. What does Williams argue is a function of wealth?

5. Why did the conference remind Williams of Tawana Brawley?

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