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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Williams think triggered the Judge's mental breakdown?
(a) A killing in her courtroom.
(b) Stress factors on black professional women.
(c) A particularly horrifying case.
(d) An overload of cases.

2. What did Williams enter at the start of Part III, Chapter 7?
(a) An apartment building.
(b) A store.
(c) A police station.
(d) A storage depot.

3. What does Williams say of the description of the "master-slave"?
(a) It was still in effect.
(b) It was missundersttod.
(c) It was accurate.
(d) It was incomplete.

4. How old was the young African-American girl Williams talks about in Part IV, Chapter 12?
(a) 14.
(b) 18.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

5. What did Williams think the attitude of those she asked for help betrayed?
(a) Their lack of respect for her.
(b) Their sexism.
(c) Their lack of commitment to the faculty.
(d) The seriousness of racism.

6. What happens in the book Williams read to black women when they turned 27?
(a) They married.
(b) They died.
(c) They lost their professional skills.
(d) They turned white.

7. What joke did Williams mother made about her being a lawyer?
(a) She was rich.
(b) She should bill her visit by the hour.
(c) She had it in her blood.
(d) She could sue her.

8. Why did the conference remind Williams of Tawana Brawley?
(a) The conference was about rape.
(b) The conference was about media relationships.
(c) The conference was about white establishment.
(d) The conference was about underage drinking.

9. What does Williams wonder whether a white man would ever do at the start of Part IV, Chapter 10?
(a) Pretend to be the reincarnation of a black man.
(b) Agree with her.
(c) Be fair to an African American.
(d) Be president of the NCCA.

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

11. What type of guerrilla acts did Williams fantasize about in Part IV, Chapter 10?
(a) Death of white lawyers.
(b) Inseminating white women with black sperm.
(c) Slashed police car tires.
(d) Imprisonment of white women.

12. What did Gabel's movement emphasize that rights are?
(a) Unstable and indeterminate.
(b) Ignored by police officers.
(c) Made for white people.
(d) Guaranteed by the Law.

13. What did Williams do with Peter Gabel in Part III, Chapter 8?
(a) Argue.
(b) Have lunch.
(c) Teach a course.
(d) Fly in a plane.

14. What show does Williams say she watched at the end of Part IV, Chapter 12?
(a) Oprah.
(b) The People's Court.
(c) The Phil Donahue show.
(d) The Dr, Phil show.

15. What did Williams find herself upset by in the department store?
(a) A white woman.
(b) A security guard.
(c) A small dog.
(d) A singer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story did Williams' sister tell her when they met?

2. What did Williams see on a street corner after dancing that she considered was worth mentioning?

3. What book does Williams say the reading group she was at read?

4. How much money did Gabel lend a sub-lessor?

5. What did Mike Tyson give Tawana Brawley?

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