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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Civil Liberties: Free to Be You and Me (The History of the Women's Rights Movement, The Rights of Women, and Reproductive Rights).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although the judiciary branch does not possess either the purse or the sword, they do possess what two things?
(a) Reason and judgment.
(b) Wealth and might.
(c) Intelligence and humor.
(d) Humility and loyalty.

2. Can the job of giving men and women equal rights be done without an equal rights amendment?
(a) Yes, most definitely.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes, in theory.
(d) No.

3. What was the breakthrough on the United States Supreme Court?
(a) The appointment of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
(b) The appointment of Justice Florence Allen.
(c) The appointment of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(d) The retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

4. What it one main reason for why it took lawmen so long to accept women into the field?
(a) T enough room for women in law schools.
(b) Fear.
(c) Overloaded schedules.
(d) Tradition.

5. Ginsburg says that she and other female law students felt that if they were called on in class, they had to get it right, because of what reason?
(a) If they did not, they would be failing.
(b) If they did not, the male students would laugh in their faces.
(c) If they did not, they would be a permanent disappointment to their families.
(d) If they did not, they would be kicked out of school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ginsburg describes 1950s graffiti. What does this graffiti NOT say?

2. How long did Ginsburg research cases and articles regarding gender in the law, when preparing a college course?

3. According to Ginsburg’s husband, who was a law school teacher, whose hand would shout up first to answer a question?

4. Surely there was a chill wind for women in the law schools of the 1950s, although many of the female students barely noticed it. Why?

5. In argument among the judges, what does not take place?

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