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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Trial by Text, A Sequence of Sublimation, Chapter 6, The Obliging Shell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Williams criticize the increase focused on?
(a) Differences on college campuses.
(b) White women.
(c) Illegal immigrants.
(d) Race.

2. Who called the student that came to see Williams an "activist"?
(a) The dean.
(b) A fellow student.
(c) The assistant dean.
(d) A white teacher.

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

4. What does Williams say added complexities to her opinions?
(a) Her student's opinions.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Race.
(d) Gender.

5. Why was the student that came to see Williams called an activist?
(a) She complained that Othello was racist.
(b) She complained that the bill of rights was racist.
(c) She complained that Macbeth was racist.
(d) She complained white students were racist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say she thought of the relation of the reader to a particular text was?

2. Whose plight did Williams sympathize with?

3. What does Williams say racist attitudes towards African-American is?

4. What type of law did Williams teach?

5. What does Williams say small businesses used to rationalize the changes in the mid 80's?

(see the answer key)

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