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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 are the principles Williams will study in the book?
(a) Autonomy, community and order.
(b) Racism and freedom.
(c) Freedom and universality of the law.
(d) Law and order.

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

3. What does Williams want to show about legal language?
(a) It protect the whites in power.
(b) It flattens complex issues.
(c) It is reprehensible.
(d) It is necessary.

4. What does Williams say about how she was treated during her different social functions?
(a) Both as black and non-black.
(b) As a white man.
(c) As a woman.
(d) As a slave.

5. How does Williams argue about how Americans understood freedom?
(a) As an excuse for war.
(b) In an abstract way.
(c) As political freedom.
(d) As a concept.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams note pervaded the country?

2. What does Williams claim she bridged in The Alchemy of Race and Rights?

3. What does Williams believe law is?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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