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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Today, about what percent of the nation’s law students are women?

3. What is the reason that Ginsburg gives for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?

4. What it one main reason for why it took lawmen so long to accept women into the field?

5. Women were not on the bench in numbers, on the federal bench, until what president?

Short Essay Questions

1. What concerns Ginsburg regarding feminism and feminist legal theory, in particular?

2. What does Ginsburg believe about the future of her dissents?

3. How was Ginsburg recognized by Presidents of the United States?

4. Why does Ginsburg consider the current conservative Court to be filled with activist judges?

5. Why does Ginsburg believe that the Citizens United case was so important?

6. Why does Ginsburg involve herself in death penalty cases?

7. How are judges different than legislators, according to Ginsburg?

8. Why did Ginsburg struggle to find work, even after tying for first in her class at Columbia Law School?

9. How does Ginsburg see her role regarding the law?

10. How did Ginsburg and the Women's Rights Project go about dismantling discrimination laws?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ginsburg repeatedly mentions that the ‘40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s were dark days for the women’s rights movement. Why might this have been? What events might have led to this slowing of progress for women? How and why?

Essay Topic 2

Ginsburg says that up until the civil rights movement, women did not feel the need to get up in arms about the prejudice against them. Why is that? How might things be different in many fields if women had said enough is enough at a much earlier time? What might that have meant for women today?

Essay Topic 3

What does Ginsburg say about the role of the judge? What people and events in her life have influenced this attitude? What does she say about the problems that can arise if a judge does not agree with her? How does she feel the appointment for life as a Supreme Court Justice aid the judges in doing their jobs as she believes they should be done?

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