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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Sierra Club.
(c) The Anti-Communism Committee.
(d) The McCarthy Club.

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

3. 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) A judge.
(b) Congress.
(c) A plumber.
(d) Teaching.

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”?
(a) Celia Bader.
(b) Florence Allen.
(c) Sandra Day O’Connor.
(d) Martin Ginsburg.

5. What is Ginsburg craft, according to her?
(a) Working with and for the law.
(b) Working to change the interpretation of the Constitution.
(c) Working with and for the other branches of the government.
(d) Working against those with opposing views.

6. 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 female’s.
(c) A smart student’s.
(d) A male’s.

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

8. 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?

9. What does Ginsburg think of most of her dissents?
(a) They were not necessary.
(b) They are of little importance.
(c) They will be the law someday.
(d) Others will never agree with her.

10. How does Ginsburg feel about women arguing every kind of case that comes before the court?
(a) It makes her laugh.
(b) It worries her.
(c) It frustrates her.
(d) It gives her great pleasure.

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

12. What did Ginsburg’s husband admire most about her?
(a) Her loud voice.
(b) Her kind heart.
(c) Her strong will.
(d) Her intelligence.

13. Ginsburg became the first woman to join what prestigious group at Harvard?
(a) Harvard Law Review.
(b) Harvard Honor Society.
(c) Harvard Women’s Organization.
(d) Harvard Civil Rights Committee.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ginsburg’s biggest booster?

2. According to Ginsburg, what did the Founding Fathers think about human rights?

3. To what is a judge bound regarding court cases?

4. 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?

5. What does Ginsburg believe was the founding fathers’ true purpose?

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