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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Trial by Text, A Sequence of Sublimation, Chapter 6, The Obliging Shell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Williams' friend held at gunpoint by?
(a) A police officer.
(b) Swat team.
(c) A mugger.
(d) A white woman.

2. Who does Williams argue suffered under the then-current system?
(a) Rich and poor.
(b) The poor.
(c) African-Americans.
(d) The rich.

3. What does Williams note pervaded the country?
(a) Racism and anti-Vietnam.
(b) Crime, drugs and police brutality.
(c) Crime only.
(d) Affirmative action.

4. What does Williams say whites associate black with?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Criminality.
(c) Bad neighborhoods.
(d) Drugs.

5. Whose arguments on affirmative action did Williams reject?
(a) The 9th Court of Appeals.
(b) The 7th Court of Appeals.
(c) The Supreme Court.
(d) California Supreme Court.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Williams say her experience with the law review indicated?

3. What types of rights does Williams argue are the only kind present in the Constitution?

4. What does Williams say was an important form of oppression?

5. Who wrote the memo Williams received after talking with one of her students?

(see the answer key)

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