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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. Does Ginsburg believe it is ideology that keeps lawyers from helping to repair tears in their communities, nation, and world?
(a) Often.
(b) Yes, in general.
(c) No, not in general.
(d) Sometimes.

2. Who have benefited enormously from Ginsburg’s work?
(a) Both men and women.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

3. What makes judges unlike legislators?
(a) Judges are not chosen by the people.
(b) Judges have achieved higher levels of education.
(c) Judges have to give reasons for every decision they make.
(d) Judges have better reasoning skills.

4. The Supreme Court, unlike the political branches of government, is what kind of institution?
(a) A totally inactive institution.
(b) A totally refractive institution.
(c) A totally proactive institution.
(d) A totally reactive institution.

5. Today, about what percent of the nation’s law students are women?
(a) 75%
(b) 90%
(c) 50%.
(d) 25%

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginsburg think about Criticism of the courts, and similarly criticism of other branches of government?

2. Women were not on the bench in numbers, on the federal bench, until what president?

3. According to Ginsburg, to make sure that the judges are not infusing their own beliefs and ideas into the constitutional text, how should the law be read?

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

5. Ginsburg became the first woman to join what prestigious group at Harvard?

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