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

2. What was the profession of one of Williams' student's fathers according to Part I, Chapter 2?
(a) Slave owner.
(b) Trucker.
(c) Slumlord.
(d) Lawyer.

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

4. What did Williams use her story about the store to illustrate?
(a) Racism.
(b) The 1980's depression.
(c) The privatization of space.
(d) White people's fear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was removed from the article after the second edit?

2. What did the memo Williams received accuse her of doing?

3. What did the contract Williams found relate to?

4. What is the goal of The Alchemy of Race and Rights?

5. Who did Williams write an article for about her being prevented from entering the store?

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