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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 (American Rights and Values and Equal Justice Under the Law).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an activist judge, according to Ginsburg?
(a) One who is a liberal.
(b) One who willingly strikes down laws passed by the political branches.
(c) One who is a conservative.
(d) One who stands up for current social issues.

2. Why does segregation in many schools still exist?
(a) Many families are happy with the segregated schools their children attend.
(b) The law has not completely changed for educational institutions.
(c) Geographical boundaries left over from segregation still remain.
(d) Many small towns still support segregation, but in a quiet way so as to not catch the attention of the federal government.

3. What is missing from the 1787 Constitution and from the Bill of Rights?
(a) The equality guarantee.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) Citizens are protected from unreasonable search and seizure.
(d) The right to bear arms.

4. 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, the male students would laugh in their faces.
(b) If they did not, they would be failing.
(c) If they did not, they would be kicked out of school.
(d) If they did not, they would be a permanent disappointment to their families.

5. What does Ginsburg think about Criticism of the courts, and similarly criticism of other branches of government?
(a) It should be silenced.
(b) It should not take place.
(c) It should be ignored.
(d) It should not be resented.

Short Answer Questions

1. Supreme Court judges are infallible only because of what reason?

2. From where does the Supreme Court’s power come?

3. Although the judiciary branch does not possess either the purse or the sword, they do possess what two things?

4. According to Ginsburg, to make sure that the judges are not infusing their own beliefs and ideas into the constitutional text, how should the law be read?

5. Who recognized Ginsburg’s keen sense of justice when he appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit?

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