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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Judge does Williams say was given a lot of attention?
(a) Sharron Markel.
(b) Maxine Thomas.
(c) Sophia Supp.
(d) Antonia Watson.

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

3. What did Williams need help with in Part III, Chapter 9?
(a) Grading her papers.
(b) Dealing with students.
(c) Making a point to her students.
(d) Dealing with racism.

4. Where did Tawana Brawley live in 1987?
(a) Wappinger.
(b) Boston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) San Francisco.

5. What does Williams say happened to black women because of professionalism?
(a) They divorce.
(b) They don't marry.
(c) They can't be happy.
(d) They whitened.

6. What does Williams argue African-Americans think will happen if they are killed by a white police officer?
(a) Their family would receive a large settlement.
(b) Their family would be vilified.
(c) They would be seen as a criminal.
(d) The officer would not suffer any consequences.

7. How many children does Williams say stormed out off the door as she was entering?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

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

9. What type of patients were being housed in the hospital Williams' godmother died in?
(a) Pregnant women.
(b) Terminal patients.
(c) AIDS patients.
(d) Cancer patients.

10. What does Williams say made African Americans visible?
(a) Crime.
(b) Running for office.
(c) Social commitments to protect rights.
(d) Newscasts.

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

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

13. What element of the bargaining situation did Williams and Gabel discuss?
(a) The necessity for a contract.
(b) What things are worth.
(c) The legality of it.
(d) Trust and distrust.

14. Who does Williams say strongly supported Tawana Brawley?
(a) White police officers.
(b) The media.
(c) The black community.
(d) Lawyers.

15. What does Williams say Gable's movement overlooked?
(a) Black experience.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Jurisprudence.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in the book Williams read to black women when they turned 27?

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

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

4. What was Williams doing at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10?

5. What was the profession of the owner of Williams great-great-grandmother according to Part IV, Chapter 12?

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