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

2. What does Ginsburg believe Thomas Jefferson would do regarding how the idea of equality has expanded over the decades?
(a) He would applaud it.
(b) He would argue against it.
(c) He would not know what to think about it.
(d) He would mock it.

3. When was the hardest time for Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court?
(a) When she was the only liberal judge.
(b) When she neared retirement.
(c) When she was first appointed.
(d) When she was the only female on the court after Sandra Day O’Connor retired.

4. Unlike Ginsburg’s ancestors in their exodus from Egypt, we must rely on what?
(a) Measures of our own creation.
(b) The intelligence of our leaders.
(c) The president, instead of Moses.
(d) God to care for us.

5. Ginsburg says we remember Hitler's Europe, his Holocaust Kingdom, in what way and why?
(a) In awe, because he was so skilled a leader, albeit terrible.
(b) In fear, because she sees the US following the same course.
(c) In anger, because it never should have happened.
(d) In sorrow, because it was not lawless.

Short Answer Questions

1. In argument among the judges, what does not take place?

2. What does Ginsburg think of most of her dissents?

3. Some studies suggest that which profession is one of the most unhappy and unhealthy on the face of the earth?

4. To what is a judge bound regarding court cases?

5. How old is the U.S. Constitution at the time Ginsburg mentions its age in a speech?

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