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

2. What does Ginsburg say is the difference between a New York City garment district bookkeeper and a Supreme Court justice?
(a) Several years of education.
(b) A few blocks.
(c) One generation.
(d) There is no difference.

3. Which Amendment does Ginsburg believe is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete?
(a) The Tenth Amendment.
(b) The Twenty-First Amendment.
(c) The Second Amendment.
(d) The First Amendment.

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

5. Every modern human rights document has what statement?
(a) Men are equal before the law.
(b) Men and women are equal before the law.
(c) The laws do not apply to the wealthy.
(d) Men and women are treated differently before the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did President Bill Clinton nominate Ginsburg?

2. What is the problem with the wording, "Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex”?

3. What makes judges unlike legislators?

4. What does the equal protection jurisprudence in the United States say about the governing authorities regarding citizens and the equal protection of the laws?

5. In what year did Ginsburg begin the Women’s Rights Project?

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