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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Williams say some people asked when she told her story about the store?
(a) Who the attendant was.
(b) If she was just privileging her own view.
(c) When it happened.
(d) If she contacted the store.

2. What does Williams say the questions in the hypothetical cases unknowingly created?
(a) Racist students.
(b) Lower grades for women.
(c) Bad lawyers.
(d) Sexist lawyers.

3. Why did the student come to see Williams?
(a) To complain.
(b) To cry.
(c) To ask for clarification.
(d) To praise Williams.

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

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

6. What does Williams say her paper evaluations did to many students?
(a) It made them realize they were racists.
(b) It made them want to leave her class.
(c) It upset them.
(d) It pleased them.

7. Whose portrait did the Jewish student in Williams' story deface?
(a) The President's.
(b) Beethoven's.
(c) George Washington's.
(d) Jesus'.

8. What types of rights does Williams argue are the only kind present in the Constitution?
(a) Freedom rights.
(b) Negative rights.
(c) Liberty rights.
(d) Positive rights.

9. Who does Williams argue suffered under the then-current system?
(a) Rich and poor.
(b) The rich.
(c) The poor.
(d) African-Americans.

10. What does Williams maintain racial construction had?
(a) Great power.
(b) Little power.
(c) Great responsibility.
(d) Low credibility.

11. What was removed from the article after the second edit?
(a) Her name.
(b) The name of the store and her race.
(c) The date it happened.
(d) Her expression of rage

12. What year was the student that came to Williams at the start of Part II, Chapter 5?
(a) Third year.
(b) Second year.
(c) First year.
(d) Fourth year.

13. What does Williams say was important for black students to do?
(a) Seek political offices.
(b) Vote and attend college.
(c) Demand to be treated equally.
(d) Not commit crimes.

14. What was Williams accused of being after sending her correspondence to the faculty?
(a) An opportunist.
(b) Racist.
(c) Didactic and condescending.
(d) Biased.

15. Who wrote the memo Williams received after talking with one of her students?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The associate dean.
(c) The dean.
(d) A student.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Williams say she felt when she was attending college?

2. Whose arguments on affirmative action did Williams reject?

3. What does Williams say small businesses used to rationalize the changes in the mid 80's?

4. Who does Williams say ignored her while she was attending college?

5. What story about Harvard did Williams use to illustrate the point she made in Part I, Chapter 1?

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