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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Congress pass a Civil Rights Act that overruled some restrictive decisions including the one in Ledbetter v. Goodyear in Chapter 8?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1991.

2. When Ginsburg was a professor, how many maids were being laid off?
(a) 25.
(b) 31.
(c) More than two dozen.
(d) About a dozen.

3. When did George W. Bush sign a new federal partial-birth abortion ban into law?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2004.

4. When did the Supreme Court rule on Frontiero v. Richardson?
(a) March 3, 1973.
(b) April 11, 1973.
(c) June 23, 1973.
(d) May 14, 1973.

5. In 2010, how many years did Ginsburg say that she devoted her life to litigating cases about the equal citizenship stature of men and women?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first full-time employee of the ACLU Women's Rights Project (WRP)?

2. What company had once made all women quit when they married and then excluded pregnancy coverage on its employee plan was sued by its female employees in the 1970s?

3. In Chapter 6, when was Marty told that he had metastatic cancer?

4. In Chapter 5, how many cases did the Supreme Court take in a year?

5. What feeding for Jane did Marty take over when the Ginsburgs lived in Oklahoma?

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