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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 happened to be white woman Williams read about in the paper?
(a) She was falsely imprisoned.
(b) She was given black sperm.
(c) She was killed.
(d) She killed a man.

2. What does Williams say small businesses used to rationalize the changes in the mid 80's?
(a) Crime fighting.
(b) Cheap labor.
(c) Higher energy costs.
(d) Racism.

3. What does Williams say she received from her students?
(a) Terrible evaluations.
(b) Letters of recommendation.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Complaints.

4. What is Williams ethnicity?
(a) Mexican-American.
(b) White.
(c) Japanese-American.
(d) African-American.

5. What does Williams say recent affirmative action jurisprudence rejected?
(a) The constitutionality of racial preferences.
(b) The obligation of small businesses to abide by it.
(c) The definition of prejudice.
(d) The right for African-Americans to use it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the "bum" referred by the children?

2. What was removed from the article Williams wrote after the first edit?

3. What does Williams say the questions in the hypothetical cases unknowingly created?

4. What does Williams think triggered the Judge's mental breakdown?

5. Where did Tawana Brawley live in 1987?

(see the answer key)

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