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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Williams go after meeting her sister?

3. What does Williams say she noticed a year after her entering the same building?

4. Where was Williams briefly detained?

5. What does Williams say made African Americans visible?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Williams realize about the bargaining situation?

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

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

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

5. What does the Critical Legal Studies movement emphasize?

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

7. What did Williams believe about New Orleans?

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

9. What did Williams believe about Judge Maxine Thomas?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the story of Eleanor Bumpurs and determine whether it was a simple oversight or if there was an issue of race and rights.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the three features of American jurisprudence and determine how they influence race and rights.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the impact that the student evaluations had on Williams and discuss why she chose to include this in a discussion about race and rights.

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