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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. 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) Men began to care about women as equals and women had earned the right to vote.
(d) The economy was much improved and the civil rights movement had changed the attitudes of many regarding African Americans.

2. What does Ginsburg think of the expression, "women's rights"?
(a) It is completely inaccurate.
(b) It is a bit problematic.
(c) It is outdated.
(d) It describes the issue perfectly.

3. Ginsburg says that, in one sense, their mission in the 1970s regarding gender equality was easy. Why?
(a) Most men sided with the feminists.
(b) Everyone was ready for change.
(c) There was nothing subtle about the way things were.
(d) Ginsburg and her female colleagues were smarter than their male counterparts.

4. What were the years that Ginsburg describes as hopeless, in regard to the women's rights movement?
(a) The '50s, '60s, and '70s.
(b) The '60s, '70s, and '80s.
(c) The '20s, '30s, and '40s.
(d) The '40s, '50s, and '60s.

5. Unlike Ginsburg’s ancestors in their exodus from Egypt, we must rely on what?
(a) Measures of our own creation.
(b) The intelligence of our leaders.
(c) God to care for us.
(d) The president, instead of Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ginsburg say has control over the lives of hardworking, taxpaying illegal immigrants?

2. How did Ginsburg feel when she saw the sign at the bed and breakfast saying that no dogs or Jews were allowed?

3. When Ginsburg was on the Law Review at Harvard, why was she not allowed into Lamont Library?

4. How many generations of women in Ginsburg’s family have attended Harvard Law School?

5. What does Ginsburg say will allow women to advance in the military?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ginsburg believe that contraceptives must be covered in health insurance plans?

2. Why does Ginsburg believe it is important for the courts to stay out of the business of putting one religion and its beliefs up against another?

3. What are two ways in which Ginsburg was discriminated against as an employee at Rutgers?

4. Why does Ginsburg believe Apartheid in America really needed to go after World War II?

5. Who does Ginsburg say are the most impoverished around the world? Why?

6. What does Ginsburg say about Judge Learned Hand?

7. What issues does Ginsberg have with Roe v. Wade?

8. What are two things that Ginsburg says to remember and honor the late Justice Antonin Scalia?

9. Why did Ginsburg study in various bathrooms while a student at Cornell?

10. What were the three fronts in which work progressed for Ginsburg and her colleagues at the ACLU and law seminars?

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