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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 types of rights does Williams argue are the only kind present in the Constitution?
(a) Freedom rights.
(b) Liberty rights.
(c) Positive rights.
(d) Negative rights.

2. Where did Williams' interest in property law came from?
(a) Her family history.
(b) Her college professor.
(c) Her upbringing.
(d) Her time as a bank advisor.

3. What does Williams argue replaced direct oppression of African-Americans?
(a) Their omission.
(b) Their enslavement.
(c) Their freedom.
(d) Their arrest.

4. 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) Her receiving an award.
(c) Harvard's inability to find African American female professors.
(d) Her speaking with her students.

5. What does Williams believe that parts of the social contract in the United States involved?
(a) Social parity.
(b) Social acceptance.
(c) Social racism.
(d) Social control.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Williams say some people claimed when she told her story about the store?

4. What does Williams argue capitalism did to everything?

5. What answer did Williams give to the one who questioned her account in the book?

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