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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. Why does Ginsburg believe the law exists?
(a) To teach society.
(b) To control society.
(c) To govern society.
(d) To restrict society.

2. In argument among the judges, what does not take place?
(a) Pleasantries.
(b) Agreement.
(c) Vote trading.
(d) Dissent.

3. What is Ginsburg craft, according to her?
(a) Working against those with opposing views.
(b) Working with and for the other branches of the government.
(c) Working with and for the law.
(d) Working to change the interpretation of the Constitution.

4. What is the problem with the wording, "Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex”?
(a) People can distort its meaning.
(b) People will eagerly break this law.
(c) It is prejudice.
(d) It does not include all people.

5. According to Ginsburg, what did the Founding Fathers think about human rights?
(a) Human rights were subjective.
(b) Human rights were only for while males.
(c) Human rights were only for the educated.
(d) Human rights were natural rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginsburg say will allow women to advance in the military?

2. What does Ginsburg say to not do when one is slighted?

3. What is NOT a way that laws once governed women in the workplace, according to Ginsburg's quotes?

4. What does Ginsburg believe Thomas Jefferson would do regarding how the idea of equality has expanded over the decades?

5. Ginsburg says that, in one sense, their mission in the 1970s regarding gender equality was easy. Why?

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