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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most men of the bench and bar had what the French call what, regarding the unyielding conviction that women and lawyering do not mix?
(a) La tradition.
(b) Idée forte.
(c) Idée fixe.
(d) Nationalité superbe.

2. Who recognized Ginsburg’s keen sense of justice when he appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit?
(a) President Ronald Reagan.
(b) President Jimmy Carter.
(c) President Richard Nixon.
(d) President George Bush.

3. What is missing from the 1787 Constitution and from the Bill of Rights?
(a) The equality guarantee.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) The right to bear arms.
(d) Citizens are protected from unreasonable search and seizure.

4. Ginsburg only became engaged with the women’s rights movement at what time?
(a) When she was a professor.
(b) When she became a member of the Supreme Court.
(c) When she lost her first civil rights case.
(d) When she was a student at Columbia.

5. From where does the Supreme Court’s power come?
(a) Its intelligence and education.
(b) Its military might and wealth.
(c) Its reason and judgment.
(d) The Congress and Senate.

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

7. What word is never used in the Constitution but is a burning problem?
(a) Illegal aliens.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Homosexuality.

8. Surely there was a chill wind for women in the law schools of the 1950s, although many of the female students barely noticed it. Why?
(a) The men were treated even worse in law school than the women.
(b) They were too busy studying to notice.
(c) They had thick skin and did not let it get to them.
(d) It was expected, taken for granted.

9. What does Ginsburg say is the benefit of having judges with diverse backgrounds and experiences?
(a) Our system of justice is too diverse
(b) Our system of justice is surely richer.
(c) Our system of justice struggles to find agreement.
(d) Our system of justice does not function as easily as it used to.

10. According to Ginsburg, to make sure that the judges are not infusing their own beliefs and ideas into the constitutional text, how should the law be read?
(a) Loosely.
(b) Literally.
(c) Figuratively.
(d) In a way that supports current public opinion.

11. What consequence can not be administered with an even hand?
(a) The death penalty.
(b) Life in prison.
(c) Jail sentences.
(d) Community service.

12. For what does Justice Ginsburg consistently call?
(a) An upheaval of the laws as they were known and understood at the time.
(b) A reinforcement of the law as it was first written.
(c) A conservative stance regarding the Constitution.
(d) An interpretation of the Constitution that regards all people equally before the law.

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

14. What are the hardest cases for Ginsdburg?
(a) Death penalty cases.
(b) The cases involving children.
(c) The cases involving minorities or women.
(d) The intricate cases.

15. What does Ginsburg believe was the founding fathers’ true purpose?
(a) To create and perpetuate the belief that men are stronger and more capable than women.
(b) To create and maintain a society where all citizens have equal stature before the law.
(c) To continue the belief that white men reign supreme.
(d) To conquer the entire Western Hemisphere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zedek, Zedek, tirdof mean?

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?

3. When was the hardest time for Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court?

4. Can the job of giving men and women equal rights be done without an equal rights amendment?

5. In what year did Ginsburg begin the Women’s Rights Project?

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