View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Civil Liberties: Free to Be You and Me (The History of the Women's Rights Movement, The Rights of Women, and Reproductive Rights).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two factors Ginsburg lists as to why the atmosphere regarding the women's rights movement changed in the late 1960s?
(a) The virtual disappearance of food and goods cultivated or produced at home and the access to more effective means of birth control.
(b) More women were in the workforce and more men were staying home with children.
(c) The economy was much improved and the civil rights movement had changed the attitudes of many regarding African Americans.
(d) Men began to care about women as equals and women had earned the right to vote.

2. Surely there was a chill wind for women in the law schools of the 1950s, although many of the female students barely noticed it. Why?
(a) The men were treated even worse in law school than the women.
(b) It was expected, taken for granted.
(c) They were too busy studying to notice.
(d) They had thick skin and did not let it get to them.

3. What is NOT a way that laws once governed women in the workplace, according to Ginsburg's quotes?
(a) Laws barred women from dangerous or inappropriate occupations.
(b) Laws prescribed the time of day women were allowed to work.
(c) Laws prescribed the maximum number of a woman could work.
(d) Laws regarding required education for women.

4. What does Ginsburg see as the principal mission of the Supreme Court?
(a) To preside over the lower judges.
(b) To interpret the Constitution the exact same way the Founding Fathers did.
(c) To keep the law of the United States more or less uniform.
(d) To provide multiple interpretations of the law.

5. What does Ginsburg think of most of her dissents?
(a) They will be the law someday.
(b) They were not necessary.
(c) Others will never agree with her.
(d) They are of little importance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ginsburg feel about women arguing every kind of case that comes before the court?

2. Although the judiciary branch does not possess either the purse or the sword, they do possess what two things?

3. A widely used property law casebook, in an edition published in 1968, offered what bit of comic relief?

4. What does Ginsburg call pregnancy discrimination?

5. Ginsburg always thought there was nothing this type of person would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, so as to not touch a man's world.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 447 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample