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

2. 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 exclusion of the Bill of Rights.
(d) The adoption of the equal rights amendment.

3. Maintaining what is always difficult in times of terror, according to Ginsburg?
(a) Truth and unity.
(b) Love and honor.
(c) Sanity and clarity.
(d) Liberty and freedom.

4. What really had to go after World War II, according to Ginsburg?
(a) Multi-generational homes.
(b) The US military.
(c) Apartheid in America.
(d) The idea that women should be in the military.

5. What is the basic statement in the Declaration of Independence that all persons are equally entitled to fundamental human rights?
(a) The last few Amendments.
(b) The Preamble.
(c) The Bill of Rights.
(d) The Seven Articles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What case held Virginia's ban on interracial marriages unconstitutional?

2. Why was it considered okay for women to be left out of jury duty?

3. According to Ginsburg, what did the Founding Fathers think about human rights?

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

5. Who told Ginsburg she should change the wording from 'sex' to 'gender'?

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