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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. What does Williams say some people claimed when she told her story about the store?
(a) She didn't ask why she was refused access.
(b) She didn't ask the man's name.
(c) She didn't present another opinion.
(d) They had similar stories.

2. How does Williams say she felt when she was attending college?
(a) Observed.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Alone.
(d) Persecuted.

3. What does Williams argue capitalism did to everything?
(a) Spoiled it.
(b) Commodified it.
(c) Exported it to China.
(d) Made is cheat.

4. What did Williams use her story about the store to illustrate?
(a) White people's fear.
(b) The 1980's depression.
(c) Racism.
(d) The privatization of space.

5. What does Williams say recent affirmative action jurisprudence rejected?
(a) The obligation of small businesses to abide by it.
(b) The constitutionality of racial preferences.
(c) The definition of prejudice.
(d) The right for African-Americans to use it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say her post as a law professor made her be?

2. What does Williams say some people thought when she told her story about the store?

3. What does Williams say racist attitudes towards African-American is?

4. What year was the student that came to Williams at the start of Part II, Chapter 5?

5. What did the memo Williams received accuse her of doing?

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