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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What store was Williams prevented from entering?
(a) Walmart.
(b) Benetton.
(c) K-Mart.
(d) Neiman-Marcus.
2. What is the goal of The Alchemy of Race and Rights?
(a) To contrast racism and law.
(b) To empower African-Americans.
(c) Take a critical theory approach to rights.
(d) To expose racism.
3. What does Williams argue about the relation between property rights and family liberties African Americans endured under slavery?
(a) It still exists today.
(b) It is still present in some countries.
(c) It is reversed today.
(d) It disappeared in 1976.
4. What does Williams say the questions in the hypothetical cases unknowingly created?
(a) Lower grades for women.
(b) Racist students.
(c) Bad lawyers.
(d) Sexist lawyers.
5. What did Williams' work concern according to Part I, Chapter II?
(a) The line between contract and communion.
(b) Sexism in contracts.
(c) Contract law.
(d) Racism in contracts.
6. Whose plight did Williams sympathize with?
(a) Corporate excecutives.
(b) Women and African-American.
(c) Poor farmers.
(d) Women.
7. Who did Williams write an article for about her being prevented from entering the store?
(a) A church bulletin.
(b) A consumer rights magazine.
(c) An African-American journal.
(d) A Law Review.
8. What does Williams note pervaded the country?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) Racism and anti-Vietnam.
(c) Crime only.
(d) Crime, drugs and police brutality.
9. How does Williams argue about how Americans understood freedom?
(a) As an excuse for war.
(b) As a concept.
(c) In an abstract way.
(d) As political freedom.
10. What does Williams say some people thought when she told her story about the store?
(a) She made things up.
(b) She unfairly puts the salesman on trial.
(c) She did not know why she was refused access.
(d) She was singled out for being a woman.
11. 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.
12. What does Williams argue capitalism turned the public into?
(a) Inactive people.
(b) Consumers.
(c) Credit card holder.
(d) The private.
13. What does Williams say happened to one of the black youth chased by police?
(a) He was run down and died.
(b) He was arrested.
(c) He was shot and killed.
(d) He surrendered.
14. Why was the student that came to see Williams called an activist?
(a) She complained white students were racist.
(b) She complained that Othello was racist.
(c) She complained that Macbeth was racist.
(d) She complained that the bill of rights was racist.
15. What does Williams send to the faculty after receiving communication from students?
(a) A memo.
(b) A law suit.
(c) An open letter.
(d) A formal complaint.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Williams believe that parts of the social contract in the United States involved?
2. Who questions Williams opinions at the start of Part II, Chapter 6?
3. In Part 1, Chapter 1, what does Williams say are constructed?
4. How many principles does Williams say she will study in the book?
5. What policy does Williams say she supported?
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