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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Johnson administration add sex discrimination to the list of sins that could cause a school to lose its federal funding?

2. In Chapter 4, what image was on stamps of early mailings from the ACLU Women's Rights Project?

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

4. Who announced the opinion for Shelby County v. Holder in Chapter 1?

5. In Chapter 1, when did Ginsburg have surgery to place a stent into her right coronary artery?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the image of Ginsburg on social media different from the typical portrayal of older women?

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

3. What did the timeline in Chapter 2 cover?

4. How did Marty and Ginsburg start going together?

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

6. What were some women complaining about in letters in Chapter 4 that the New Jersey branch of the American Civil Liberties Union asked Ginsburg to look at?

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 1, 40 years before Ginsburg sat on the Supreme Court, what cases did she argue and what success did she have in spite of obstacles she faced?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ginsburg and Marty were married for over 50 years. What is conveyed about marriage as a partnership through their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of this book? Why is it not an autobiography?

Essay Topic 3

Bill Clinton nominated Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. Why was there controversy over her nomination? Why was she controversial with feminists and with conservatives? Why were people worried about her political stances?

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