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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. What is Ginsburg’s lucky number?

2. Who invited the first-year class of female students at Harvard Law School to a private dinner?

3. Why were women employees at one point not allowed health insurance coverage for their families?

4. Why should the courts stay out of the business of evaluating the merits of religious groups?

5. How long does Ginsburg say she will do her job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ginsburg say about Judge Learned Hand?

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

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

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

5. What is meant when Ginsburg quotes someone as saying the symbol of the U.S. is not the bald eagle but the pendulum?

6. How does Ginsburg address the concern that many will be overpaying for health insurance, when it comes to the Affordable Care Act?

7. What does Ginsburg say about her suffering from two bouts of cancer?

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

9. Why does Ginsburg’s believe that anti-abortion laws are dangerous?

10. What did the dean of Harvard Law School do to the women in the first-year class?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ginsburg says, “If we don’t protect the people we don’t like, we’re going to lose protections for ourselves” (77). To what amendment is she referring? What does she mean by this? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Ginsburg says there were many indignities that she had to endure, being a woman. What are two examples of these indignities, as mentioned in the book? How do women still suffer indignities today? In your opinion, do men suffer from similar indignities? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

According to Ginsburg, why does the law exist? Why does she believe this? How has it influenced her life and her work? How has this affected everyday Americans?

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