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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Marty begin teaching tax law at Columbia Law School?
(a) Late 1970s.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1983.
(d) Early 1980s.

2. When was Ginsburg interviewed for a federal district court judge position in Chapter 5?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1980s.

3. How many children did Scalia have?
(a) 9.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

4. What branch of the military did Ginsburg's personal trainer serve in?
(a) Army reserve.
(b) Air force reserve.
(c) Coast Guard.
(d) Naval reserve.

5. In Chapter 7, how long after Susan and David Williams' job interviews for Ginsburg did they begin clerking?
(a) 20 months.
(b) 12 months.
(c) 14 months.
(d) 18 months.

6. When did Republicans and Democrats come together to declare that the Voting Rights Acts was still necessary in Chapter 8?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2007.

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

8. What did Ginsburg say was her favorite artist in Chapter 9?
(a) Josef Alberts.
(b) Ben Cunningham.
(c) Matisse.
(d) Max Weber.

9. When Lilly Ledbetter received a paper showing the salaries of men's salaries at Goodyear Tire, how much more were the men making than she was in Chapter 8?
(a) Around $15,000.
(b) $18,500.
(c) $16,750.
(d) About $17,000.

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

11. When did the Ginsburgs take a vacation to the Virgin Islands?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1980.

12. What feeding for Jane did Marty take over when the Ginsburgs lived in Oklahoma?
(a) 2 a.m.
(b) Midnight.
(c) 5 a.m.
(d) 10 p.m.

13. In Chapter 5, when was Ginsburg's image as a moderate set?
(a) May 1993.
(b) April 1993.
(c) March 1993.
(d) June 1993.

14. Where was the uniform crocheted white ring that was one of Ginsburg's favorite collars purchased?
(a) Italy.
(b) South Africa.
(c) France.
(d) Australia.

15. How old was Savana Redding, an Arizona student, who was strip searched at her school?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did justices override elected officials to strike down a major portion of a law that helped people have access to the ballot in Shelby County v. Holder?

2. What did a Legal Times study in 1988 discover was the percentage of times that Ginsburg had voted with judge Robert Bork on cases they served together?

3. How much did Gerald Gunther, Ginsburg's Columbia Law professor, bet that Ginsburg would be known as open-minded not as a radical in Chapter 5?

4. In 2015, how many push-ups could Ginsburg do by taking a break halfway through?

5. When was the majority opinion assigned to Ginsburg for the case against the Virginia Military Institute's refusal to admit women in Chapter 5?

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