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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 answer was Williams given by those she asked for help?
(a) That she couldn't get help.
(b) To laugh it off.
(c) Thet she needed to file the proper paperwork.
(d) That she was not faculty yet.

2. What does Williams say about black communities?
(a) They were created by force.
(b) They are stable.
(c) They are far from city hall.
(d) They did not vote enough.

3. What does Williams say younger adults are socialized to have?
(a) Good views of woman.
(b) No will of their own.
(c) Good grades.
(d) Negative expectation of blacks.

4. Where was Williams briefly detained?
(a) California.
(b) Alabama.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) New York.

5. What does Williams argue capitalism did to everything?
(a) Made is cheat.
(b) Commodified it.
(c) Exported it to China.
(d) Spoiled it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Williams' students often do when she exposed her ideas to them?

2. What does Williams say was important for black students to do?

3. How does Williams feel about being a lawyer in Part I, Chapter 1?

4. What does Williams call the friend that suggested that her personal style of writing was too much for people?

5. What does Williams argue affirmative action should be protected as?

(see the answer key)

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