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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Williams' friend held at gunpoint by?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A white woman.
(c) Swat team.
(d) A mugger.

2. What does Williams argue had a price under capitalism?
(a) Free speech.
(b) Elections.
(c) People's lives.
(d) Justice.

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

4. What does Williams argue capitalism did to everything?
(a) Spoiled it.
(b) Commodified it.
(c) Made is cheat.
(d) Exported it to China.

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

6. What is Williams ethnicity?
(a) Japanese-American.
(b) Mexican-American.
(c) White.
(d) African-American.

7. What does Williams want to show about legal language?
(a) It flattens complex issues.
(b) It is reprehensible.
(c) It protect the whites in power.
(d) It is necessary.

8. What does Williams say small businesses did in New York in the mid 80's according to Part I, Chapter3?
(a) They started arming their clerks.
(b) They started refusing access to African-Americans.
(c) They installed buzzers at the door.
(d) They started hiring private security.

9. What conclusion does Williams say she drew from the incident at the store?
(a) Racism was permissible.
(b) Buzzers were useless.
(c) Women were discriminated against.
(d) Guns should be controlled.

10. What was removed from the article Williams wrote after the first edit?
(a) The name of the store.
(b) Her expression of rage.
(c) The date it happened.
(d) Her race.

11. 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 was singled out for being a woman.
(d) She did not know why she was refused access.

12. What does Williams say the faculty's questions reinforced?
(a) Stereotypes.
(b) Low standards.
(c) Ignorance of the race.
(d) Current laws.

13. What does Williams say she received from her students?
(a) Terrible evaluations.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Letters of recommendation.
(d) Complaints.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say was important for black students to do?

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

3. What store was Williams prevented from entering?

4. What does Williams say penetrated even the highest levels of culture?

5. Whose arguments on affirmative action did Williams reject?

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