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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Law (The Supreme Court and Women and the Law).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Women have played important roles regarding law, according to what sources?
(a) Ancient texts.
(b) Chinese history.
(c) European kingdoms.
(d) The Constitution.

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

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

5. What does Ginsburg see as the principal mission of the Supreme Court?
(a) To preside over the lower judges.
(b) To provide multiple interpretations of the law.
(c) To interpret the Constitution the exact same way the Founding Fathers did.
(d) To keep the law of the United States more or less uniform.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ginsburg live in Fort Sill, Oklahoma for a short time?

2. Today, about what percent of the nation’s law students are women?

3. What it one main reason for why it took lawmen so long to accept women into the field?

4. Surely there was a chill wind for women in the law schools of the 1950s, although many of the female students barely noticed it. Why?

5. What is the reason that Ginsburg gives for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?

(see the answer key)

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