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

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

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

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

5. What does Williams say she was often confronted with?
(a) Heart wrenching stories.
(b) Liberal students.
(c) Racism.
(d) White lawyers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say the liberal understand freedom as?

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

3. What does Williams say added complexities to her opinions?

4. What university did Williams attend according to Part II, Chapter 4?

5. What two ideas of freedom does Williams mention in Part II, Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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