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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What procedure does Williams say the doctor advised the young girl to have?
(a) Tubal ligation.
(b) A hysterectomy.
(c) A lobotomy.
(d) Appendectomy.

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

4. What case does Williams use to illustrate her point in Part IV, Chapter 10?
(a) A pregnant woman in prison.
(b) Her white woman killing her husband.
(c) A white woman lying on the stand.
(d) A white man in prison.

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) The seriousness of racism.
(d) Their lack of commitment to the faculty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams say did not work as a political strategy for blacks?

2. What did Williams find herself upset by in the department store?

3. Who was the "bum" referred by the children?

4. Where was Williams briefly detained?

5. What did Mike Tyson give Tawana Brawley?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Williams relate to her own sense of personal power?

2. Who was Peter Gabel according to Part III, Chapter 8?

3. What was the terrible dream that Williams describes?

4. How did Williams see the master-slave description?

5. Who was Eleanor Bumpurs and what happened to her in 1984?

6. What did many members of the African American community think about Brawley?

7. What analogy does Williams use to describe sterilization?

8. What does the Critical Legal Studies movement emphasize?

9. What did some of the other faculty tell Williams when she complained about racism in Part III, Chapter 9?

10. What example illustrated that Williams believed the world had gone crazy?

(see the answer keys)

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