View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: A Life of Her Own and Milestones.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did the Founding Father believe bestowed human rights?
(a) No one.
(b) The leaders of the nations.
(c) Kings and Queens.
(d) A Higher Authority.

2. 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) 1920.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1917.

3. What does Ginsburg see as the principal mission of the Supreme Court?
(a) To provide multiple interpretations of the law.
(b) To keep the law of the United States more or less uniform.
(c) To interpret the Constitution the exact same way the Founding Fathers did.
(d) To preside over the lower judges.

4. According to Ginsburg, how did Judges and legislators of the 1960s and part of the 1970s view differential treatment of men and women?
(a) Operating in men's favor.
(b) Absolutely necessary for balance in our society.
(c) Operating in women's favor.
(d) Expected in all societies.

5. Ginsburg describes 1950s graffiti. What does this graffiti NOT say?
(a) Study hard.
(b) Get a good job.
(c) Get married.
(d) Get your degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ginsburg’s lucky number?

2. What advice did Ginsburg’s father-in-law give her, when she said she was not sure if she could manage a young child and law school?

3. What does Zedek, Zedek, tirdof mean?

4. How does Ginsburg judge the past?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 318 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample