View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Trial by Text, A Sequence of Sublimation, Chapter 5, Crimes Without Passion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose plight did Williams sympathize with?
(a) Women.
(b) Corporate excecutives.
(c) Poor farmers.
(d) Women and African-American.

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

3. Who was Williams' friend held at gunpoint by?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A mugger.
(c) Swat team.
(d) A white woman.

4. What does Williams recommend the faculty do in her correspondence?
(a) Have questions vetted by her only.
(b) Setup a racial bias council.
(c) Give students her questions only.
(d) Have ongoing exam discussion.

5. What does Williams say she thought of the relation of the reader to a particular text was?
(a) Variable.
(b) Changing.
(c) Fix.
(d) Unclear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say the attitude of privatized innocent publicized?

2. What are the principles Williams will study in the book?

3. What does Williams say students started to send her after he spoke out?

4. How does Williams argue about how Americans understood freedom?

5. What does Williams argue capitalism did to things that properly had no price?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 223 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample