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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. Although the judiciary branch does not possess either the purse or the sword, they do possess what two things?
(a) Intelligence and humor.
(b) Reason and judgment.
(c) Humility and loyalty.
(d) Wealth and might.

2. Why does Ginsburg believe the law exists?
(a) To restrict society.
(b) To govern society.
(c) To control society.
(d) To teach society.

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

4. What is Ginsburg craft, according to her?
(a) Working with and for the other branches of the government.
(b) Working with and for the law.
(c) Working to change the interpretation of the Constitution.
(d) Working against those with opposing views.

5. Who was Ginsburg’s biggest booster?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an activist judge, according to Ginsburg?

2. What is missing from the 1787 Constitution and from the Bill of Rights?

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

4. Can the job of giving men and women equal rights be done without an equal rights amendment?

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?

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