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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, The Incorruptible Simplicity of Being: A String of Crystalline Parables.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Williams say she had to fight over while being on a consumer protection board?
(a) The definition of African American.
(b) The definition of mushroom.
(c) The definition of sausage.
(d) The definition of pancake.

3. What does Williams argue African-Americans think will happen if they are killed by a white police officer?
(a) Their family would receive a large settlement.
(b) Their family would be vilified.
(c) The officer would not suffer any consequences.
(d) They would be seen as a criminal.

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. How much money did Gabel lend a sub-lessor?
(a) $3900.
(b) $900.
(c) $2900.
(d) $1900.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say she disagreed about racial preference being?

2. What generalization does Williams say should be fought?

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

4. Whose story does Williams mention in Part III, Chapter 7?

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

(see the answer key)

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