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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who announced the opinion for Shelby County v. Holder in Chapter 1?
(a) Sotomayor.
(b) Kagan.
(c) Scalia.
(d) Roberts.

2. When did the Johnson administration add sex discrimination to the list of sins that could cause a school to lose its federal funding?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1967.

3. When was Ginsburg asked to teach the first-ever Rutgers class on women and the law?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1970.

4. How old was Ginsburg when her mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer?
(a) 13.
(b) 15.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

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

6. Where did Ginsburg grow up?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Maine.
(d) Brooklyn.

7. How many years after Roe did the Supreme Court rule that public insurance did not have to pay for abortions?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 7.

8. What color was the sign that Brenda Feigen hung on the door of the WRP's territory at the ACLU offices?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.

9. In Chapter 4, what image was on stamps of early mailings from the ACLU Women's Rights Project?
(a) Polar Bear.
(b) Playboy Bunny.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) General Douglas MacArthur.

10. In Chapter 1, what jabot would Ginsburg wear as her dissent collar?
(a) Yellow collar crocheted with pink edges
(b) Scalloped collar with glass beads.
(c) Crocheted collar with gold chains.
(d) Gold bib that resembles wings.

11. Who became the director of the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU after Ginsburg?
(a) Brenda Feigen.
(b) Kathleen Peratis.
(c) Ria Tabacco Mar.
(d) Lenora Lapidus.

12. What jewelry did Ginsburg wear when she appeared before the Supreme Court in Chapter 4?
(a) Her grandmother's earrings.
(b) Her aunt's earrings.
(c) Her mother's pearls.
(d) Her mother's pin and earrings.

13. When was the ACLU's Women's Rights Project established with Brenda Feigen and Ginsburg?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1973.

14. 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) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

15. What time did the a marshall call for the court to begin in Chapter 1?
(a) 10 a.m.
(b) 9 a.m.
(c) 11 a.m.
(d) 8 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Shana Knizhnik in 2013?

2. What did Ginsburg give up when she was in her late 70s?

3. In Chapter 1 when Ginsburg was presenting cases before the Supreme Court, how many cases did she win of those she argued for women's rights?

4. When did Felix Frankfurter rule that allowing women to bartend would "give rise to moral and social problems" (53)?

5. In Chapter 1, what was the date?

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