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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. Who was Ginsburg's personal trainer?
2. In the fall of 2006, how many women were among the clerks for the Supreme Court justices?
3. When was the case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby brought before the Supreme Court?
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. When did Republicans and Democrats come together to declare that the Voting Rights Acts was still necessary in Chapter 8?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Ginsburg say about her mother when she thanks Clinton for her nomination to the Supreme Court?
2. Who advised Ginsburg to see a personal trainer?
3. How important was opera to the Ginsburgs?
4. What were the details of the United States v. Virginia?
5. What activities did Ginsburg enjoy that contradicted her image as a formal, cold person?
6. What was Marty's role in getting Ginsburg nominated as an associate justice for the Supreme Court?
7. 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?
8. What did a justice say about the case of 13-year-old Arizona student Savana Redding?
9. What did Alan Dershowitz say about Ginsburg when Clinton nominated her to the Supreme Court?
10. In what way were the marriages of the Ginsburgs and the Wiesenfelds alternative?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
How did Ginsburg defy stereotypes? What type of person was she? What is revealed about being your person through her life?
Essay Topic 3
Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993. What is the role of the Supreme Court in the United States Justice system? What is communicated about the Supreme Court and its importance to freedom in the book?
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