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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Williams say some people thought when she told her story about the store?
(a) She was singled out for being a woman.
(b) She did not know why she was refused access.
(c) She made things up.
(d) She unfairly puts the salesman on trial.

3. What does Williams send to the faculty after receiving communication from students?
(a) An open letter.
(b) A memo.
(c) A formal complaint.
(d) A law suit.

4. How did the Jewish student deface the portrait in Williams' story?
(a) He drew glasses.
(b) He wrote "Hmm Hmm" on it.
(c) He colored it black.
(d) He drew moustaches.

5. What does Williams note pervaded the country?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) Racism and anti-Vietnam.
(c) Crime, drugs and police brutality.
(d) Crime only.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of rights does Williams argue are the only kind present in the Constitution?

2. Who does Williams say ignored her while she was attending college?

3. What does Williams say the image of peaceful white community being interrupted by a black presence did to blacks?

4. What does Williams believe that parts of the social contract in the United States involved?

5. How does Williams say she reacted to talking with the student?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the student evaluations say of Williams?

2. What did businesses in New York City start to do in the mid-1980's and what rationale did they use in Part I, Chapter 3?

3. What does racism penetrate according to Williams?

4. What does a friend called "Q" suggest about Williams' writing?

5. What did Williams believe she did in her writing?

6. Why did one of Williams' students become angry?

7. What does Williams say one must do in order to be noticed?

8. Who questioned Williams' opinions at the start of Part II, Chapter 6?

9. What does Williams hope to show regarding legal language?

10. What was the response to the memo sent out by Williams?

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