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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What policy does Williams say she supported?
(a) 14th amendment.
(b) 1st amendment.
(c) Panthers movement.
(d) Affirmative action.

2. What does Williams argue is a function of wealth?
(a) The right to privacy.
(b) Racism.
(c) The number of slaves owned.
(d) Political power.

3. How does Williams feel about being a lawyer in Part I, Chapter 1?
(a) She wanted it.
(b) She hated it.
(c) She regretted it.
(d) She loved it.

4. What does Williams say small businesses did in New York in the mid 80's according to Part I, Chapter3?
(a) They started hiring private security.
(b) They started arming their clerks.
(c) They installed buzzers at the door.
(d) They started refusing access to African-Americans.

5. What does Williams argue affirmative action should be protected as?
(a) Speech.
(b) Religion.
(c) Reunion.
(d) Guns.

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

7. How does Williams say she reacted to talking with the student?
(a) She sympathized.
(b) She turned her away.
(c) She disagreed with her.
(d) She made fun of her.

8. Who did Williams write an article for about her being prevented from entering the store?
(a) A consumer rights magazine.
(b) A Law Review.
(c) An African-American journal.
(d) A church bulletin.

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

10. What did the contract Williams found relate to?
(a) The ownership of her great-great-grandmother.
(b) Her car.
(c) Her mother's house.
(d) Her ancestor's slaves.

11. What conclusion does Williams say she drew from the incident at the store?
(a) Racism was permissible.
(b) Buzzers were useless.
(c) Women were discriminated against.
(d) Guns should be controlled.

12. Who questions Williams opinions at the start of Part II, Chapter 6?
(a) The dean.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A student.
(d) A student's parent.

13. 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 pancake.
(c) The definition of sausage.
(d) The definition of mushroom.

14. What story about Harvard did Williams use to illustrate the point she made in Part I, Chapter 1?
(a) Her arguing with a fellow law professor.
(b) Harvard's inability to find African American female professors.
(c) Her receiving an award.
(d) Her speaking with her students.

15. What does Williams say was an important form of oppression?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Black only neighborhoods.
(c) The police.
(d) The image of the black criminal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams want to show about legal language?

2. What does Williams say recent affirmative action jurisprudence rejected?

3. What does Williams claim she bridged in The Alchemy of Race and Rights?

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

5. What does Williams say she was accused of being against?

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