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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name Ginsburg was given at birth?
(a) Ruth Joan Ginsburg.
(b) Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(c) Jill Ruth Bader.
(d) Joan Ruth Bader.

2. From where did Ginsburg receive her undergraduate degree?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Cornell.

3. In what year did Ginsburg begin the Women’s Rights Project?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1972.

4. Why did Ginsburg live in Fort Sill, Oklahoma for a short time?
(a) Martin was stationed there during the Korean War.
(b) She has close family there.
(c) This is where she received her first law clerk position.
(d) She has always loved the state of Oklahoma.

5. Where and when was Ginsburg born?
(a) Chicago in 1923.
(b) Queens in 1943.
(c) Boston in 1933.
(d) Brooklyn in 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ginsburg’s biggest booster?

2. 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?

3. One of Ginsburg’s professors, Robert E. Cushman, called to his students’ attention the injustices of what organization?

4. When Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School, she was one of how many women in a class of 500 students?

5. For what does Justice Ginsburg consistently call?

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