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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 did Williams' friends pressure her to admit about the show in the department store?
(a) It was progress.
(b) The book was unreadable.
(c) The songs were good.
(d) She was racist.

2. What does Williams say about how she was treated during her different social functions?
(a) As a woman.
(b) Both as black and non-black.
(c) As a white man.
(d) As a slave.

3. What does Williams say the "evidentiary rules" of legitimating turf war had whites believe?
(a) African-Americans were actively agressive.
(b) Jewish were rich.
(c) Women could multi-task.
(d) Children were always annoying.

4. What does Williams believe law is?
(a) Necessary for society.
(b) Inter-subjective.
(c) Made by white people.
(d) Used to oppress African-Americans.

5. What was Williams disturbed by at the start of Part IV, Chapter 11?
(a) Questions about contract law.
(b) Questions about criminal law.
(c) Questions about civil law.
(d) Questions about divorce law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say her post as a law professor made her be?

2. What does Williams say she thought of the relation of the reader to a particular text was?

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

4. What common conception does Williams target in her book?

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

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