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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 story did Williams' sister tell her when they met?
(a) A shooting nearby.
(b) The death of a friend.
(c) A walk-through wake.
(d) A hostage case.

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

3. What happened to be white woman Williams read about in the paper?
(a) She was given black sperm.
(b) She was killed.
(c) She was falsely imprisoned.
(d) She killed a man.

4. Where does Williams go after meeting her sister?
(a) Pasadena.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) New York.
(d) New Orleans.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Williams relate what disturbed her to her sister?

3. What does Williams say happened to black women because of professionalism?

4. Who does Williams say strongly supported Tawana Brawley?

5. How many children does Williams say stormed out off the door as she was entering?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did a friend who was a property law professor describe?

2. What did many members of the African American community think about Brawley?

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

4. What does Williams think should happen to laws?

5. What did Williams complain about a fashion show and what did her friend insist in Part IV, Chapter 11?

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

7. What did Williams have in her blood and why was it secret in Part IV, Chapter 12?

8. What did Williams realize about the bargaining situation?

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

10. How did Williams see the master-slave description?

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