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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 doing at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Grading papers.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Reading a book.

2. What does the man in the story at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10 claim to be?
(a) The black reincarnation of Elvis
(b) A lawyer.
(c) President of the United States.
(d) Martin Luther King.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say nothing was in the city?

2. Who was the "bum" referred by the children?

3. What show does Williams say she watched at the end of Part IV, Chapter 12?

4. What story did Williams' sister tell her when they met?

5. What does Williams say made African Americans visible?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Williams see about slavery and family?

2. What does the Critical Legal Studies movement emphasize?

3. What did some of the other faculty tell Williams when she complained about racism in Part III, Chapter 9?

4. What did Williams realize about the bargaining situation?

5. What did Williams believe about Judge Maxine Thomas?

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

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

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

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

10. What was the terrible dream that Williams describes?

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