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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 case does Williams use to illustrate her point in Part IV, Chapter 10?
(a) A white man in prison.
(b) A white woman lying on the stand.
(c) A pregnant woman in prison.
(d) Her white woman killing her husband.

2. What was removed from the article Williams wrote after the first edit?
(a) Her expression of rage.
(b) The date it happened.
(c) Her race.
(d) The name of the store.

3. What organization did Peter Gabel found?
(a) Liberal Legal Studies.
(b) African American Legal Help.
(c) The ACLU.
(d) Critical Legal Studies.

4. What book does Williams say the reading group she was at read?
(a) We Are Saved.
(b) And We Are Not Saved
(c) The Color Purple.
(d) Uncle Tom's Cabin.

5. What does Williams say the examples she gave in Part II, Chapter 4 illustrate?
(a) Strong segregationist instinct among whites.
(b) Unlawful African-Americans.
(c) The neutrality of the law.
(d) Racism among police officers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams believe that parts of the social contract in the United States involved?

2. How does Williams say she reacted to talking with the student?

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

4. What does Williams say the attitude of privatized innocent publicized?

5. What does Williams say she was often confronted with?

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