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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Women were not on the bench in numbers, on the federal bench, until what president?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Calvin Coolidge.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

2. 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) Nationalité superbe.
(b) Idée forte.
(c) La tradition.
(d) Idée fixe.

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

4. From where did Ginsburg receive her undergraduate degree?
(a) Yale.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

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

6. The Supreme Court, unlike the political branches of government, is what kind of institution?
(a) A totally inactive institution.
(b) A totally reactive institution.
(c) A totally refractive institution.
(d) A totally proactive institution.

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

8. Ginsburg says that she and other female law students felt that if they were called on in class, they had to get it right, because of what reason?
(a) If they did not, they would be a permanent disappointment to their families.
(b) If they did not, they would be kicked out of school.
(c) If they did not, they would be failing.
(d) If they did not, the male students would laugh in their faces.

9. What is far more important than the particular individuals who compose the Court’s bench at any given time?
(a) North America.
(b) The institution Ginsburg and her colleagues serve.
(c) The other legislative branches.
(d) The President of the United States.

10. 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.

11. What does Ginsburg believe Thomas Jefferson would do regarding how the idea of equality has expanded over the decades?
(a) He would mock it.
(b) He would argue against it.
(c) He would applaud it.
(d) He would not know what to think about it.

12. According to Ginsburg’s husband, who was a law school teacher, whose hand would shout up first to answer a question?
(a) An older student’s.
(b) A male’s.
(c) A female’s.
(d) A smart student’s.

13. According to Ginsburg, what did the Founding Fathers think about human rights?
(a) Human rights were only for while males.
(b) Human rights were only for the educated.
(c) Human rights were subjective.
(d) Human rights were natural rights.

14. What is the reason that Ginsburg gives for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?
(a) Only the truth mattered to the press.
(b) The justices rarely agree.
(c) Agreement is kind of boring.
(d) They do not pay much attention to the judiciary branch.

15. 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) Americans United.
(b) United Front.
(c) Citizens United.
(d) United Friends of America.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did President Bill Clinton nominate Ginsburg?

2. In addition to graduating with honors, of what prestigious organization was Ginsburg a member?

3. Why does Ginsburg see the Constitution as a remarkable institution?

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. The few women who braved law school in the 1950s and 1960s, it was generally supposed, presented what, regarding men?

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