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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. Until what year, was there the excuse that citizens who had no vote, no voice in making laws, had no business administering, enforcing, or interpreting them?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1929.

2. Which Amendment does Ginsburg believe is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete?
(a) The Tenth Amendment.
(b) The Second Amendment.
(c) The First Amendment.
(d) The Twenty-First Amendment.

3. Ginsburg only became engaged with the women’s rights movement at what time?
(a) When she was a student at Columbia.
(b) When she was a professor.
(c) When she lost her first civil rights case.
(d) When she became a member of the Supreme Court.

4. 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?
(a) United Front.
(b) Citizens United.
(c) Americans United.
(d) United Friends of America.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginsburg say about people who do not see that their vote counts?

2. What is far more important than the particular individuals who compose the Court’s bench at any given time?

3. Some studies suggest that which profession is one of the most unhappy and unhealthy on the face of the earth?

4. To what is a judge bound regarding court cases?

5. Why does segregation in many schools still exist?

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