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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Civil Liberties: Free to Be You and Me (American Rights and Values and Equal Justice Under the Law).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plan does Ginsburg say may hasten the closing of the divide between various races in the U.S.?
(a) The Civil Rights Movement.
(b) Affirmative Action.
(c) The Me Too Movement.
(d) Black Lives Matter.

2. From where did Ginsburg receive her undergraduate degree?
(a) Yale.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

3. Women were not on the bench in numbers, on the federal bench, until what president?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Calvin Coolidge.

4. What does Ginsburg think about Criticism of the courts, and similarly criticism of other branches of government?
(a) It should not take place.
(b) It should not be resented.
(c) It should be silenced.
(d) It should be ignored.

5. Who is bound to be sympathetic to others who encounter discrimination?
(a) Those who are well-traveled.
(b) The government.
(c) People who have known discrimination.
(d) The poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What really had to go after World War II, according to Ginsburg?

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

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

4. From where does the Supreme Court’s power come?

5. Who does Ginsburg say has control over the lives of hardworking, taxpaying illegal immigrants?

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