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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Excluding Voices, a Necklace of Thoughts on the Ideology of Style, Chapter 2, Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story about Harvard did Williams use to illustrate the point she made in Part I, Chapter 1?
(a) Her arguing with a fellow law professor.
(b) Harvard's inability to find African American female professors.
(c) Her speaking with her students.
(d) Her receiving an award.

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

3. What is the goal of The Alchemy of Race and Rights?
(a) To expose racism.
(b) Take a critical theory approach to rights.
(c) To empower African-Americans.
(d) To contrast racism and law.

4. What does Williams note pervaded the country?
(a) Racism and anti-Vietnam.
(b) Crime only.
(c) Affirmative action.
(d) Crime, drugs and police brutality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the principles Williams will study in the book?

2. What does Williams argue capitalism turned the public into?

3. How does Williams argue about how Americans understood freedom?

4. What was the profession of one of Williams' student's fathers according to Part I, Chapter 2?

5. What type of law did Williams teach?

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