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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 advice Ginsburg says her mother-in-law gave her regarding marriage?
(a) It helps being a good cook.
(b) Make your husband think he is always right.
(c) Take marriage one day at a time.
(d) It helps sometimes to be a little deaf.

2. What phrase was Ginsburg known to say often?
(a) I object.
(b) That is not Constitutional.
(c) I know what is best.
(d) Free to be you and me.

3. In a talk in 1978, Ginsburg says that Civil Rights laws do not prohibit discrimination on what basis?
(a) Race.
(b) Sex.
(c) National origin.
(d) Religion.

4. Who did Ginsburg consider the most intelligent person she ever knew?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her father.

5. What does Zedek, Zedek, tirdof mean?
(a) Government, Government, do what is right.
(b) Leaders, Leaders guide your people well.
(c) Laws, Laws, are so tiresome.
(d) Justice, Justice shalt thou pursue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Ginsburg give regarding not being shy and speaking up?

2. How long did Ginsburg research cases and articles regarding gender in the law, when preparing a college course?

3. Why does segregation in many schools still exist?

4. Most men of the bench and bar had what the French call what, regarding the unyielding conviction that women and lawyering do not mix?

5. What is Ginsburg craft, according to her?

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