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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the "bum" referred by the children?
(a) An white "bag lady".
(b) A dog.
(c) An elderly African-American man.
(d) An elderly African-American woman.

3. What does Williams wonder whether a white man would ever do at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10?
(a) Be president of the NCCA.
(b) Pretend to be the reincarnation of a black man.
(c) Agree with her.
(d) Be fair to an African American.

4. What was Williams' godmother's name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Patricia.
(c) Marjorie.
(d) Sophia.

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

6. What does Williams say the world hates?
(a) Trouble makers.
(b) African Americans.
(c) Brown spills.
(d) Racism.

7. Why does Williams say she did not have the same relationship to law than Gabel who was a white male?
(a) She was a "dangerous" black woman.
(b) She was a woman.
(c) She was a lawyer.
(d) She had a good attorney.

8. What happens in the book Williams read to black women when they turned 27?
(a) They lost their professional skills.
(b) They turned white.
(c) They married.
(d) They died.

9. What show does Williams say she watched at the end of Part IV, Chapter 12?
(a) Oprah.
(b) The People's Court.
(c) The Dr, Phil show.
(d) The Phil Donahue show.

10. What does Williams say did not work as a political strategy for blacks?
(a) Running for office.
(b) Appealing to the courts.
(c) Describing needs.
(d) Demanding results.

11. What did Williams find herself upset by in the department store?
(a) A white woman.
(b) A security guard.
(c) A small dog.
(d) A singer.

12. What does Williams say of the description of the "master-slave"?
(a) It was accurate.
(b) It was still in effect.
(c) It was incomplete.
(d) It was missundersttod.

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

14. What did Williams enter at the start of Part III, Chapter 7?
(a) An apartment building.
(b) A police station.
(c) A storage depot.
(d) A store.

15. Who did Williams argue with after the first conference she went to?
(a) A law and literature professor.
(b) Her sister.
(c) A security guard.
(d) Her students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the black community fiercely criticize?

2. What did the Tawana Brawley case come to represent according to Williams?

3. What did Williams think the attitude of those she asked for help betrayed?

4. What happened to be white woman Williams read about in the paper?

5. What does Williams say her mother wanted her to reclaim?

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