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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. 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?

2. When was Ginsburg interviewed for a federal district court judge position in Chapter 5?

3. When Lilly Ledbetter received a paper showing the salaries of men's salaries at Goodyear Tire, how much more were the men making than she was in Chapter 8?

4. What would Marty bring each clerk on their birthday in Chapter 6?

5. In Chapter 6, what play did Ginsburg and her husband see on Broadway where people stood when they saw Ginsburg and applauded?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Ginsburg believe in 1993 that technology would end the rest of the conflict over abortion, and why did technology not end the conflict?

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

8. What was Bryant Johnson's background?

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

10. How and when was Ginsburg confirmed as a judge on the D.C. circuit appeals court?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ginsburg believed in getting along with her colleagues. How important did Ginsburg believe it was to get along with her colleagues even if they had opposing views? How did her views influence how she treated people even if they did not agree?

Essay Topic 2

The book was written by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik. What role did the co-authors play in writing the book? Why was it necessary to have co-authors?

Essay Topic 3

When the court turned more conservative, Ginsburg often did not agree with the majority opinion. Why did Ginsburg begin not agreeing with majority opinions after the court turned more conservative? How did she express her disagreement and how influential were her dissents?

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