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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 type of law did Williams teach?
(a) Commercial law.
(b) Injury law.
(c) Criminal law.
(d) Family law.

2. What policy does Williams say she supported?
(a) 14th amendment.
(b) Affirmative action.
(c) 1st amendment.
(d) Panthers movement.

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

4. Whose plight did Williams sympathize with?
(a) Women.
(b) Corporate excecutives.
(c) Women and African-American.
(d) Poor farmers.

5. What does the man in the story at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10 claim to be?
(a) The black reincarnation of Elvis
(b) A lawyer.
(c) Martin Luther King.
(d) President of the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession of one of Williams' student's fathers according to Part I, Chapter 2?

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

3. What joke did Williams mother made about her being a lawyer?

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

5. What does Williams wonder whether a white man would ever do at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10?

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