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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. When did Ginsburg go paddleboarding when she was in residence for a week at the University of Hawaii?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1999.

2. In Chapter 6, how many dishes did Ginsburg remember that she could cook?
(a) 11.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

3. In Chapter 6, what cookbook did Marty begin working through in Oklahoma?
(a) Julia Child.
(b) Fannie Farmer.
(c) Joy of Cooking.
(d) Escoffier.

4. When was the case Bush v. Gore before the Supreme Court?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1999.

5. In the fall of 2006, how many women were among the clerks for the Supreme Court justices?
(a) 21.
(b) 7.
(c) 19.
(d) 11.

Short Answer 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?

2. When did Marty die?

3. When was it ruled that people of African descent were property and could never be citizens?

4. For how long was Sandra Day O'Connor the only female justice during her time on the court?

5. When did Marty begin teaching tax law at Columbia Law School?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way were the marriages of the Ginsburgs and the Wiesenfelds alternative?

2. How important was opera to the Ginsburgs?

3. What did a justice say about the case of 13-year-old Arizona student Savana Redding?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 9, what did Ginsburg not wish to allow to stop her from her personal training?

5. What did a 1967 graduate of VMI write to Ginsburg after the case United States v. Virginia?

6. What was life like in New York when Mary was working to establish himself at his law firm?

7. Who wrote that Ginsburg was frail, and how did Marty respond to the journalist?

8. Why did Lilly Ledbetter bring a case against Goodyear Tire?

9. What would Ginsburg tell her clerks was the most important job requirement?

10. What colleagues did Ginsburg lose in 2005 and why?

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