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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. A widely used property law casebook, in an edition published in 1968, offered what bit of comic relief?
(a) “Land, like Native Americans, must be purchased.”
(b) “Homes, like wealth, should only be for the privileged.”
(c) “Property, like dogs, must be groomed.”
(d) “Land, like woman, was meant to be possessed.”

2. 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.

3. 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?
(a) It was expected, taken for granted.
(b) They were too busy studying to notice.
(c) The men were treated even worse in law school than the women.
(d) They had thick skin and did not let it get to them.

4. According to Ginsburg, when did our Constitution get perfected in regard to equality?
(a) After World War I.
(b) After the Civil War.
(c) After the War of 1812.
(d) After the Vietnam War.

5. Ginsburg says that she and other female law students felt that if they were called on in class, they had to get it right, because of what reason?
(a) If they did not, they would be failing.
(b) If they did not, the male students would laugh in their faces.
(c) If they did not, they would be a permanent disappointment to their families.
(d) If they did not, they would be kicked out of school.

Short Answer Questions

1. A justice contemplating publication of a separate writing, should always ask herself what question?

2. 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?

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

4. Why does Ginsburg see the Constitution as a remarkable institution?

5. For what does Justice Ginsburg consistently call?

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