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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. Who received an honorary degree at Harvard at the same time that Ginsburg received an honorary degree from the institution?
(a) Rolando Villazon.
(b) Piotr Beczala.
(c) Jonas Kaufmann.
(d) Placido Domingo.

2. When was the case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby brought before the Supreme Court?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2014.

3. When did Ginsburg cook her last meal in Chapter 6?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1980.

4. In Chapter 8, when did a bill to undo the Supreme Court's damage to antidiscrimination law die in a Republican Senate?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2007.

5. In Chapter 6 when Marty was working to establish himself at his law firm and Ginsburg was woking, at what time did they agree to try to be home for dinner?
(a) 7 p.m.
(b) 7:30 p.m.
(c) 6:30 p.m.
(d) 8 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What president nominated Ginsburg as his Supreme Court nominee?

2. What cancer did O'Connor survive?

3. How many children did Scalia have?

4. In Chapter 6, for how many years did Ginsburg spend as the major caretaker of her home and her child while Marty worked to become a partner in a New York law firm?

5. In Chapter 5, what year did a man graduate from VMI who was glad about the decision to admit women and he hoped his daughter might consider it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What pleased Johnson about how Ginsburg's personal training sessions had helped her?

3. What did Alan Dershowitz say about Ginsburg when Clinton nominated her to the Supreme Court?

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

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

6. What activities did Ginsburg enjoy that contradicted her image as a formal, cold person?

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

8. What did Ginsburg suggest be done with the case Bush v. Gore and why?

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

10. What did Ginsburg's law clerk, Alisa Klein, say about Ginsburg's answer to pointed questions during her nomination hearing?

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