View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Williams think the attitude of those she asked for help betrayed?
(a) Their lack of commitment to the faculty.
(b) The seriousness of racism.
(c) Their lack of respect for her.
(d) Their sexism.

3. Who was the woman in Williams story shot by?
(a) A escaped felon.
(b) A police officer.
(c) An African American.
(d) A drug addict.

4. What wasn't binding during slavery?
(a) Marriage between slaves.
(b) Ownership contracts.
(c) Criminal proceedings.
(d) Church laws.

5. Whose story does Williams mention in Part III, Chapter 7?
(a) Sophie Freeman.
(b) Martha Stanford.
(c) Eleanor Bumpurs.
(d) Martha Eleor.

6. What does Williams argue the show in the department store exhibited?
(a) A corrupted vision of the oppressed.
(b) Bad taste in music.
(c) Low wage workers struggling.
(d) Poor choice of writers.

7. What does Williams say she noticed a year after her entering the same building?
(a) The same children.
(b) A security guard.
(c) The same "bum."
(d) A new security pad at the entrance.

8. What did Gabel's movement emphasize that rights are?
(a) Ignored by police officers.
(b) Guaranteed by the Law.
(c) Made for white people.
(d) Unstable and indeterminate.

9. What does the man in the story at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10 claim to be?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) The black reincarnation of Elvis
(c) Martin Luther King.
(d) President of the United States.

10. Where was Williams briefly detained?
(a) California.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) New York.
(d) Alabama.

11. Who did the black community fiercely criticize?
(a) The district attorney's officer.
(b) The Mexican-American community.
(c) White officers.
(d) The media.

12. What did the woman Williams talked with complain about?
(a) Being drugged.
(b) Being mugged and shot at.
(c) Being assaulted.
(d) Being allergic to smoke.

13. What procedure does Williams say the doctor advised the young girl to have?
(a) Appendectomy.
(b) A hysterectomy.
(c) Tubal ligation.
(d) A lobotomy.

14. What does Williams think triggered the Judge's mental breakdown?
(a) Stress factors on black professional women.
(b) A particularly horrifying case.
(c) An overload of cases.
(d) A killing in her courtroom.

15. What did Williams see on a street corner after dancing that she considered was worth mentioning?
(a) A drunk policeman.
(b) An old black man.
(c) A street sign.
(d) An old black woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mike Tyson give Tawana Brawley?

2. What type of guerrilla acts did Williams fantasize about in Part IV, Chapter 10?

3. What element of the bargaining situation did Williams and Gabel discuss?

4. Who did Williams argue with after the first conference she went to?

5. How old was Tawana Brawley in 1987?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 467 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample