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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. Who have benefited enormously from Ginsburg’s work?
(a) Both men and women.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

2. Who said, “If Ruth and I came of age in a time when there was no discrimination against women, we would be retired partners in a major law firm”?
(a) Martin Ginsburg.
(b) Sandra Day O’Connor.
(c) Celia Bader.
(d) Florence Allen.

3. What would relieve the Court’s uneasiness in the gray zone between interpretation and amendment of the Constitution?
(a) The adoption of the Bill of Rights.
(b) The exclusion of the equal rights amendment.
(c) The adoption of the equal rights amendment.
(d) The exclusion of the Bill of Rights.

4. What important role does Ginsburg think the press has played regarding the government?
(a) Creator of false news.
(b) Guide for telling the truth.
(c) Watchdog.
(d) Minions.

5. Supreme Court judges are infallible only because of what reason?
(a) They are final.
(b) They are very intelligent.
(c) They know the law better than anyone else.
(d) They hold all the power.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Justice Ginsburg consistently call?

2. Does Ginsburg believe it is ideology that keeps lawyers from helping to repair tears in their communities, nation, and world?

3. What does Ginsburg consider probably the most important [recent case], in that the Court had an opportunity to stop making elections turn on who can raise the most money?

4. Unlike Ginsburg’s ancestors in their exodus from Egypt, we must rely on what?

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?

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