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

2. What case held Virginia's ban on interracial marriages unconstitutional?
(a) Roe v. Wade.
(b) Brown v. Virginia.
(c) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(d) Loving v. Virginia.

3. 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 be silenced.
(c) It should not be resented.
(d) It should be ignored.

4. How does Ginsburg describe the American Dream?
(a) Every American owning their own home and car.
(b) A place where people of all kinds appreciate differences and pull together for the long haul.
(c) A place where all people have easy lives.
(d) A chance to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

5. In Ginsburg’s growing up years, to what could a girl aspire, if she wanted to have a career?
(a) Lawyering.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Mothering.
(d) Nursing.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

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

3. Supreme Court judges are infallible only because of what reason?

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

5. Every modern human rights document has what statement?

(see the answer key)

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