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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Excluding Voices, a Necklace of Thoughts on the Ideology of Style, Chapter 2, Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Williams ethnicity?
(a) Japanese-American.
(b) Mexican-American.
(c) White.
(d) African-American.

2. Who wrote the memo Williams received after talking with one of her students?
(a) The associate dean.
(b) The dean.
(c) A student.
(d) Her mother.

3. What did the memo Williams received accuse her of doing?
(a) Being racist.
(b) Favoring African-American students.
(c) Being unfair to Jewish students.
(d) Silence the moderates in her class.

4. What does Williams argue really happened when the slaves were "freed"?
(a) They were used as free labor.
(b) They were kept in slavery.
(c) They were unowned.
(d) They went to school.

5. What was the profession of one of Williams' student's fathers according to Part I, Chapter 2?
(a) Slave owner.
(b) Slumlord.
(c) Trucker.
(d) Lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Williams say she was often confronted with?

3. Who does Williams argue suffered under the then-current system?

4. How many principles does Williams say she will study in the book?

5. What did Williams' students often do when she exposed her ideas to them?

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