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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. One of Ginsburg’s professors, Robert E. Cushman, called to his students’ attention the injustices of what organization?
(a) The McCarthy Club.
(b) The House Un-American Activities Committee.
(c) The Sierra Club.
(d) The Anti-Communism Committee.

2. What does Ginsburg think about the schools that openly take race into consideration when looking at student applications?
(a) They are preferable to those that conceal it.
(b) They are worse than the schools who secretly take race into consideration.
(c) They should lose any and all public funding.
(d) They are apprehensible.

3. To what type of teacher does Ginsburg compare herself back in the 1970s?
(a) A political science teacher.
(b) An art teacher.
(c) A math teacher.
(d) A kindergarten teacher.

4. In what year was the VRA first put into effect?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1960.

5. What should not enter into the way that a person is treated, according to Ginsburg?
(a) His or her intelligence.
(b) His or her birth status.
(c) His or her citizenship.
(d) His or her age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginsburg say is the difference between a New York City garment district bookkeeper and a Supreme Court justice?

2. What case held Virginia's ban on interracial marriages unconstitutional?

3. What does the equal protection jurisprudence in the United States say about the governing authorities regarding citizens and the equal protection of the laws?

4. What does Ginsburg see as the principal mission of the Supreme Court?

5. What is Ginsburg craft, according to her?

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