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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 argue really happened when the slaves were "freed"?
(a) They were used as free labor.
(b) They were kept in slavery.
(c) They were unowned.
(d) They went to school.

2. Whose arguments on affirmative action did Williams reject?
(a) The 9th Court of Appeals.
(b) The Supreme Court.
(c) The 7th Court of Appeals.
(d) California Supreme Court.

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

4. What does Williams say neutral classifications do?
(a) Ignore race.
(b) Create racists.
(c) Dehumanize.
(d) Ignore women.

5. What did Williams and her colleague agree the market imposed in Part IV, Chapter 12?
(a) Low prices.
(b) A conception of whites bestowing goods.
(c) Low esteem in women.
(d) High credit rates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Tawana Brawley in 1987?

2. How did the Jewish student deface the portrait in Williams' story?

3. What did the memo Williams received accuse her of doing?

4. How much money did Gabel lend a sub-lessor?

5. Whose plight did Williams sympathize with?

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