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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 was Williams disturbed by at the start of Part IV, Chapter 11?
(a) Questions about civil law.
(b) Questions about criminal law.
(c) Questions about contract law.
(d) Questions about divorce law.

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

3. How old was the young African-American girl Williams talks about in Part IV, Chapter 12?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization did Peter Gabel found?

2. What joke did Williams mother made about her being a lawyer?

3. How many times was the woman mentioned in Williams' story shot?

4. What did the woman Williams talked with complain about?

5. What does Williams wonder whether a white man would ever do at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Williams believe about New Orleans?

2. What example illustrated that Williams believed the world had gone crazy?

3. What did Williams realize about the bargaining situation?

4. Who was Tawana Brawley and what happened to her in 1987?

5. What did Williams relate to her own sense of personal power?

6. What analogy does Williams use to describe sterilization?

7. What hypothetical situation regarding insemination did Williams raise and why?

8. What happened when Williams entered an apartment building according to Part III, Chapter 7?

9. Who was Peter Gabel according to Part III, Chapter 8?

10. What did Williams think Tawana's case illustrated?

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