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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 phrase was Ginsburg known to say often?
(a) I know what is best.
(b) That is not Constitutional.
(c) Free to be you and me.
(d) I object.

2. A great jurist once said the way to fight false facts is what?
(a) By banning all news.
(b) By ignoring those facts we do not like.
(c) By true facts.
(d) By making up even greater false facts.

3. How does Ginsburg feel about women arguing every kind of case that comes before the court?
(a) It makes her laugh.
(b) It worries her.
(c) It frustrates her.
(d) It gives her great pleasure.

4. Can the job of giving men and women equal rights be done without an equal rights amendment?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes, in theory.
(d) Yes, most definitely.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, “If Ruth and I came of age in a time when there was no discrimination against women, we would be retired partners in a major law firm”?

2. A justice contemplating publication of a separate writing, should always ask herself what question?

3. When Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School, she was one of how many women in a class of 500 students?

4. What was the breakthrough on the United States Supreme Court?

5. Ginsburg says that she and other female law students felt that if they were called on in class, they had to get it right, because of what reason?

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