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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. What is the high hurdle regarding gender equality, according to Ginsburg?
(a) Getting legislators to listen to their constituents.
(b) Getting past unconscious bias.
(c) Getting women to stick together and fight for equality.
(d) Getting men to see women as equals.

2. What is a response that Ginsburg gives regarding what the labels liberal and conservative mean?
(a) I wish these labels do not exist.
(b) It depends on whose ox is being gored.
(c) There is no thing as liberal or conservative.
(d) I am neither liberal nor conservative.

3. 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”?
(a) Martin Ginsburg.
(b) Sandra Day O’Connor.
(c) Florence Allen.
(d) Celia Bader.

4. How many generations of women in Ginsburg’s family have attended Harvard Law School?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

5. At the University of Minnesota Law School, Ginsburg says you learn when?
(a) You are old.
(b) From mentors.
(c) You are listening.
(d) While you live.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ginsburg feel when people say to make it to the top of the tree you have to give up a family?

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

3. Who did the Founding Father believe bestowed human rights?

4. What is the advice Ginsburg says her mother-in-law gave her regarding marriage?

5. Does Ginsburg believe it is ideology that keeps lawyers from helping to repair tears in their communities, nation, and world?

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