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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Ladder to the Light, The Pain of Word Bondage, Chapter 8, The Pain of Word Bondage.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose story does Williams mention in Part III, Chapter 7?
(a) Eleanor Bumpurs.
(b) Martha Eleor.
(c) Sophie Freeman.
(d) Martha Stanford.

3. What does Williams say she received from her students?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Terrible evaluations.
(c) Complaints.
(d) Letters of recommendation.

4. What does Williams say hypothetical cases were?
(a) Instructional mirrors.
(b) Useless.
(c) Biased.
(d) Helpful.

5. What organization did Peter Gabel found?
(a) Critical Legal Studies.
(b) Liberal Legal Studies.
(c) The ACLU.
(d) African American Legal Help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the woman Williams talked with complain about?

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

3. What does Williams argue capitalism turned the public into?

4. What does Williams argue about the relation between property rights and family liberties African Americans endured under slavery?

5. What did Gabel's movement emphasize that rights are?

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