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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 does Williams argue about the relation between property rights and family liberties African Americans endured under slavery?
(a) It still exists today.
(b) It disappeared in 1976.
(c) It is still present in some countries.
(d) It is reversed today.

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

3. What does Williams say there was a phantom of in neutrality?
(a) Lawlessness.
(b) Racism.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Liberty.

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

5. What is Williams ethnicity?
(a) African-American.
(b) Mexican-American.
(c) White.
(d) Japanese-American.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Chapter 1, what does Williams say are constructed?

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

3. What does Williams say small businesses did in New York in the mid 80's according to Part I, Chapter3?

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

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

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