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

2. What plan does Ginsburg say may hasten the closing of the divide between various races in the U.S.?
(a) Black Lives Matter.
(b) The Civil Rights Movement.
(c) Affirmative Action.
(d) The Me Too Movement.

3. Every modern human rights document has what statement?
(a) Men and women are equal before the law.
(b) Men and women are treated differently before the law.
(c) Men are equal before the law.
(d) The laws do not apply to the wealthy.

4. What is NOT a way that laws once governed women in the workplace, according to Ginsburg's quotes?
(a) Laws prescribed the time of day women were allowed to work.
(b) Laws regarding required education for women.
(c) Laws prescribed the maximum number of a woman could work.
(d) Laws barred women from dangerous or inappropriate occupations.

5. What is the high hurdle regarding gender equality, according to Ginsburg?
(a) Getting past unconscious bias.
(b) Getting legislators to listen to their constituents.
(c) Getting women to stick together and fight for equality.
(d) Getting men to see women as equals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In a talk in 1978, Ginsburg says that Civil Rights laws do not prohibit discrimination on what basis?

3. What is one reason Ginsburg does NOT say same-sex marriages should take place?

4. What are the two factors Ginsburg lists as to why the atmosphere regarding the women's rights movement changed in the late 1960s?

5. The court today arms the police with a way to routinely dishonor what amendment, regarding warrants?

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