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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, Chapter 12, On Being the Object of Property.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Williams say she disagreed about racial preference being?
(a) A thing of the past.
(b) A slippery slope.
(c) Useless.
(d) Necessary.

2. What did Williams use her story about the store to illustrate?
(a) Racism.
(b) White people's fear.
(c) The privatization of space.
(d) The 1980's depression.

3. What does Williams say the world hates?
(a) Brown spills.
(b) Racism.
(c) Trouble makers.
(d) African Americans.

4. What did Mike Tyson do that Williams says was unfair he was not despised for?
(a) Beating his wife.
(b) Boxing.
(c) Killing a tiger.
(d) Losing to a white boxer.

5. Whose story does Williams mention in Part III, Chapter 7?
(a) Martha Eleor.
(b) Sophie Freeman.
(c) Martha Stanford.
(d) Eleanor Bumpurs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Williams find herself upset by in the department store?

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

3. What wasn't binding during slavery?

4. What did Williams' friends pressure her to admit about the show in the department store?

5. Who did Williams write an article for about her being prevented from entering the store?

(see the answer key)

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