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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Ladder to the Light, The Pain of Word Bondage, Chapter 8, The Pain of Word Bondage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What common conception does Williams target in her book?
(a) Law is useless.
(b) Law is objective.
(c) Law is favorable to rich people.
(d) Laws are written by lawyers.

2. What does Williams say nothing was in the city?
(a) Safe.
(b) Cheap.
(c) Available fo African-Americans.
(d) Free.

3. Who prevented Williams from entering the store in Part I, Chapter 3?
(a) A white security guard.
(b) A black attendant.
(c) A white attendant.
(d) A Hispanic security guard.

4. What does Williams argue affirmative action should be protected as?
(a) Guns.
(b) Religion.
(c) Speech.
(d) Reunion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say was important for black students to do?

2. What policy does Williams say she supported?

3. What does Williams say was the first racist attitude?

4. What does Williams argue about the relation between property rights and family liberties African Americans endured under slavery?

5. What does Williams call the friend that suggested that her personal style of writing was too much for people?

(see the answer key)

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