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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 3, The Death of the Profane.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Williams say small businesses did in New York in the mid 80's according to Part I, Chapter3?
(a) They started refusing access to African-Americans.
(b) They started hiring private security.
(c) They installed buzzers at the door.
(d) They started arming their clerks.

3. What does Williams say some people asked when she told her story about the store?
(a) When it happened.
(b) If she contacted the store.
(c) Who the attendant was.
(d) If she was just privileging her own view.

4. What does Williams argue is a function of wealth?
(a) Political power.
(b) Racism.
(c) The number of slaves owned.
(d) The right to privacy.

5. What does Williams argue capitalism turned the public into?
(a) The private.
(b) Inactive people.
(c) Credit card holder.
(d) Consumers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Williams' work concern according to Part I, Chapter II?

2. What policy does Williams say she supported?

3. What is Williams ethnicity?

4. What does Williams say about how she was treated during her different social functions?

5. What does Williams want to show about legal language?

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