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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. Who did Ginsburg consider the most intelligent person she ever knew?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her father.

2. What is the reason that Ginsburg gives for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?
(a) They do not pay much attention to the judiciary branch.
(b) Agreement is kind of boring.
(c) The justices rarely agree.
(d) Only the truth mattered to the press.

3. A justice contemplating publication of a separate writing, should always ask herself what question?
(a) Who is my audience?
(b) Will others take me seriously?
(c) Is this Constitutional?
(d) Is this dissent or concurrence really necessary?

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

5. What word is never used in the Constitution but is a burning problem?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Illegal aliens.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginsburg say is the benefit of having judges with diverse backgrounds and experiences?

2. A widely used property law casebook, in an edition published in 1968, offered what bit of comic relief?

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

4. Most men of the bench and bar had what the French call what, regarding the unyielding conviction that women and lawyering do not mix?

5. The few women who braved law school in the 1950s and 1960s, it was generally supposed, presented what, regarding men?

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