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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 was removed from the article Williams wrote after the first edit?
(a) Her race.
(b) The name of the store.
(c) Her expression of rage.
(d) The date it happened.

2. How does Williams feel about being a lawyer in Part I, Chapter 1?
(a) She regretted it.
(b) She loved it.
(c) She wanted it.
(d) She hated it.

3. What does Williams argue capitalism did to things that properly had no price?
(a) Made them worthless.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Failed to put a price on them.
(d) It turned them into items exchanged and owned.

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

5. What does Williams note pervaded the country?
(a) Crime only.
(b) Crime, drugs and police brutality.
(c) Affirmative action.
(d) Racism and anti-Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What types of rights does Williams argue are the only kind present in the Constitution?

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

4. What does Williams say there was a phantom of in neutrality?

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

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