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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, The Incorruptible Simplicity of Being: A String of Crystalline Parables.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the memo Williams received accuse her of doing?
(a) Favoring African-American students.
(b) Silence the moderates in her class.
(c) Being unfair to Jewish students.
(d) Being racist.

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

3. What does Williams say she noticed a year after her entering the same building?
(a) The same "bum."
(b) The same children.
(c) A new security pad at the entrance.
(d) A security guard.

4. How many principles does Williams say she will study in the book?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

5. What does Williams want to show about legal language?
(a) It flattens complex issues.
(b) It is necessary.
(c) It is reprehensible.
(d) It protect the whites in power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What case does Williams use to illustrate her point in Part IV, Chapter 10?

2. What does the man in the story at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10 claim to be?

3. What does Williams say the world hates?

4. What did the woman Williams talked with complain about?

5. What does Williams say recent affirmative action jurisprudence rejected?

(see the answer key)

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