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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Law (The Supreme Court and Women and the Law).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is far more important than the particular individuals who compose the Court’s bench at any given time?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) The institution Ginsburg and her colleagues serve.
(c) The other legislative branches.
(d) North America.

2. Where and when was Ginsburg born?
(a) Chicago in 1923.
(b) Boston in 1933.
(c) Brooklyn in 1933.
(d) Queens in 1943.

3. Supreme Court judges are infallible only because of what reason?
(a) They hold all the power.
(b) They are very intelligent.
(c) They know the law better than anyone else.
(d) They are final.

4. Today, about what percent of the nation’s law students are women?
(a) 90%
(b) 75%
(c) 50%.
(d) 25%

5. Who did Ginsburg consider the most intelligent person she ever knew?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, even when she is writing a dissent, Ginsburg’s words can be what?

2. The few women who braved law school in the 1950s and 1960s, it was generally supposed, presented what, regarding men?

3. Who recognized Ginsburg’s keen sense of justice when he appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit?

4. In argument among the judges, what does not take place?

5. In Ginsburg’s growing up years, to what could a girl aspire, if she wanted to have a career?

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