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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 20.

2. 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.

3. In Chapter 4, when did Ginsburg skip lunch?
(a) March 23, 1973.
(b) April 30, 1973.
(c) February 9, 1973.
(d) January 17, 1973.

4. When was the 25th anniversary of women at Harvard Law School celebrated?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1978.

5. In Chapter 3, how many library books would Ginsburg check out weekly when her mother dropped her off at the library and went to get her hair cut?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what was the name of the man who was denied the same housing, medical, and dental benefits as other military spouses?

2. When did Justic Paul Stevens retire?

3. When did radical feminisits hold the first-ever abortion speak-out in a church basement?

4. Who took a painting of Ginsburg, added a crown, and the words "Can't spell truth without Ruth" (6) in Chapter 1?

5. What time was curfew when Gingsburg attended Cornell as an undergraduate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did a female letter carrier write to the ACLU in 1971?

2. What were times that people thought Ginsburg would retire from the Supreme Court, and how did she prove them wrong?

3. What did Ginsburg do to protect her job when she learned she was pregnant in 1965?

4. How did Ginsburg urge her fellow feminists to seek change and why?

5. What did the author learn about Ginsburg as they wrote the book?

6. When and why did Ginsburg think about what would make her mother happy and then strive to make her mother happy?

7. What was the inspiration for calling Ginsburg notorious?

8. What job was Ginsburg offered in 1972, and under what conditions did she accept?

9. What book did Ginsburg co-write in 1961, and how did it affect her life?

10. How did Kathleen Peratis describe Ginsburg?

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