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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. Women have played important roles regarding law, according to what sources?
(a) Ancient texts.
(b) European kingdoms.
(c) Chinese history.
(d) The Constitution.

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

3. Why did Ginsburg's client, Stephen Wisenfeld, not apply for social security benefits as caretaker of a deceased wage earner's child?
(a) The law provided child-in-care benefits for widowed mothers only.
(b) The law provided child-in-care benefits for widowed fathers only.
(c) The law provided child-in-care benefits for both widowed mothers and fathers.
(d) The law did not provide child-in-care benefits for widowed mothers or fathers.

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

5. To what does Ginsburg compare the important issue of healthcare today?
(a) The lack of healthcare during the Industrial Revolution.
(b) Senior and survivor benefits of the 1930s.
(c) Universal healthcare in other countries.
(d) Dental and eye care of the 1940s.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, even when she is writing a dissent, Ginsburg’s words can be what?

3. What type of argument is very important, because it is the first time all nine justices are thinking about issues together?

4. According to Ginsburg, when did our Constitution get perfected in regard to equality?

5. What does Ginsburg say is a two-edged sword?

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