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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an activist judge, according to Ginsburg?
(a) One who stands up for current social issues.
(b) One who is a conservative.
(c) One who is a liberal.
(d) One who willingly strikes down laws passed by the political branches.

2. To what is a judge bound regarding court cases?
(a) The beliefs of the other branches of the government.
(b) To decide each case fairly, in accord with the relevant facts and the applicable law.
(c) To the laws as they were created and interpreted over 200 years ago.
(d) Public opinion.

3. What does Ginsburg consider probably the most important [recent case], in that the Court had an opportunity to stop making elections turn on who can raise the most money?
(a) United Friends of America.
(b) United Front.
(c) Citizens United.
(d) Americans United.

4. Women have played important roles regarding law, according to what sources?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) Ancient texts.
(c) Chinese history.
(d) European kingdoms.

5. Some studies suggest that which profession is one of the most unhappy and unhealthy on the face of the earth?
(a) Legal.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Finance.
(d) Government.

6. What is the name Ginsburg was given at birth?
(a) Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(b) Jill Ruth Bader.
(c) Ruth Joan Ginsburg.
(d) Joan Ruth Bader.

7. A widely used property law casebook, in an edition published in 1968, offered what bit of comic relief?
(a) “Property, like dogs, must be groomed.”
(b) “Land, like Native Americans, must be purchased.”
(c) “Land, like woman, was meant to be possessed.”
(d) “Homes, like wealth, should only be for the privileged.”

8. A justice contemplating publication of a separate writing, should always ask herself what question?
(a) Is this dissent or concurrence really necessary?
(b) Is this Constitutional?
(c) Who is my audience?
(d) Will others take me seriously?

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

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

11. Who was Ginsburg’s biggest booster?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

12. Today, about what percent of the nation’s law students are women?
(a) 75%
(b) 25%
(c) 50%.
(d) 90%

13. To what did President Bill Clinton nominate Ginsburg?
(a) The Supreme Court.
(b) District Attorney.
(c) The Court of Appeals.
(d) Federal Court.

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

15. According to Ginsburg, if one is to be a lawyer and just practice one's profession, one is very much like what other field?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Congress.
(c) A judge.
(d) A plumber.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, even when she is writing a dissent, Ginsburg’s words can be what?

2. What type of argument is very important, because it is the first time all nine justices are thinking about issues together?

3. What is the reason that Ginsburg gives for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?

4. 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”?

5. 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?

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