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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. How many hours a week did Marty jokingly say that his job entailed at Fort Sill in Chapter 6?
(a) 40 hours.
(b) 50 hours.
(c) 15 hours.
(d) 4 hours.

2. When did Ginsburg and Scalia take a trip to India?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1994.

3. When was Sonia Sotomayor nominated to the Supreme Court?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2006.

4. In Chapter 9, how long had Ginsburg had the same personal trainer?
(a) Almost two decades.
(b) 17 years.
(c) About 15 years.
(d) 10 years.

5. In Chapter 5, when was Ginsburg nominated as a United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit?
(a) April 9, 1980.
(b) June 18, 1980.
(c) March 28, 1980.
(d) May 17, 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Marty die?

2. In Chapter 8, when did a bill to undo the Supreme Court's damage to antidiscrimination law die in a Republican Senate?

3. When was Ginsburg nominated as an associate justice for the Supreme Court?

4. 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?

5. When was the case Bush v. Gore before the Supreme Court?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Bryant Johnson's background?

2. What were the details of the United States v. Virginia?

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

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

5. What was the chief advice that Ginsburg received from her husband throughout her life?

6. How important was opera to the Ginsburgs?

7. In 1992, how was overturning Roe v. Wade avoided?

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

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

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

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