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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 does Williams claim she bridged in The Alchemy of Race and Rights?
(a) Bridge between law and judges.
(b) Bridge between jurisprudence and virtue.
(c) Bridge between racism and race.
(d) Bridge between theory and practice.

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

3. What does Williams say traditional jurisprudence looked for?
(a) Particulars to a specific case.
(b) Uncompromising point of reference.
(c) A relative reference.
(d) The maximum sentence.

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

5. What did the memo Williams received accuse her of doing?
(a) Favoring African-American students.
(b) Being racist.
(c) Being unfair to Jewish students.
(d) Silence the moderates in her class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Williams argue suffered under the then-current system?

2. What common conception does Williams target in her book?

3. What does Williams believe law is?

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

5. Whose plight did Williams sympathize with?

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