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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 (The History of the Women's Rights Movement, The Rights of Women, and Reproductive Rights).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Ginsburg, to make sure that the judges are not infusing their own beliefs and ideas into the constitutional text, how should the law be read?
(a) Literally.
(b) In a way that supports current public opinion.
(c) Loosely.
(d) Figuratively.

3. 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?
(a) If they did not, they would be failing.
(b) If they did not, they would be kicked out of school.
(c) If they did not, the male students would laugh in their faces.
(d) If they did not, they would be a permanent disappointment to their families.

4. What are the two factors Ginsburg lists as to why the atmosphere regarding the women's rights movement changed in the late 1960s?
(a) The economy was much improved and the civil rights movement had changed the attitudes of many regarding African Americans.
(b) More women were in the workforce and more men were staying home with children.
(c) The virtual disappearance of food and goods cultivated or produced at home and the access to more effective means of birth control.
(d) Men began to care about women as equals and women had earned the right to vote.

5. Until what year, was there the excuse that citizens who had no vote, no voice in making laws, had no business administering, enforcing, or interpreting them?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ginsburg go in the summers of '62 and '63 that changed her mind regarding the women's rights movement?

2. Why did Ginsburg's client, Stephen Wisenfeld, not apply for social security benefits as caretaker of a deceased wage earner's child?

3. 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”?

4. What were the years that Ginsburg describes as hopeless, in regard to the women's rights movement?

5. What is far more important than the particular individuals who compose the Court’s bench at any given time?

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