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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 does Williams say penetrated even the highest levels of culture?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Racism.

2. What types of rights does Williams argue are the only kind present in the Constitution?
(a) Liberty rights.
(b) Positive rights.
(c) Negative rights.
(d) Freedom rights.

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

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

5. What are the principles Williams will study in the book?
(a) Autonomy, community and order.
(b) Freedom and universality of the law.
(c) Racism and freedom.
(d) Law and order.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Williams argue about how Americans understood freedom?

2. What does Williams argue is a function of wealth?

3. What does Williams believe law is?

4. What common conception does Williams target in her book?

5. What story about Harvard did Williams use to illustrate the point she made in Part I, Chapter 1?

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