View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument did Gingsburg play in high school?
(a) Cello.
(b) Clarinet.
(c) Flute.
(d) Violin.

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

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

4. Who was the first full-time employee of the ACLU Women's Rights Project (WRP)?
(a) Brenda Feigen.
(b) Kathleen Peratis.
(c) Deb Ellis.
(d) Susan Deller Ross.

5. When did Felix Frankfurter rule that allowing women to bartend would "give rise to moral and social problems" (53)?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1948.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was the sign that Brenda Feigen hung on the door of the WRP's territory at the ACLU offices?

2. When was the 25th anniversary of women at Harvard Law School celebrated?

3. In Chapter 4, how long did Ginsburg have to present her case?

4. When did the justices claim that excluding pregnancy from a disability plan was not discrimination against women?

5. When was Ginsburg nominated to the Supreme Court?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was it a surprise for Ginsburg to learn that she was pregnant in 1965?

2. How did Marty and Ginsburg start going together?

3. How did Kathleen Peratis describe Ginsburg?

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

5. What salary was Ginsburg offered to teach civil procedure at Rugers, and why was the salary low?

6. What did Ginsburg say in her dissent regarding killing the Voting Rights Act?

7. What was the expectation for young Jewish men ahnd women when Ginsburg graduated from high school?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 917 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample