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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A plumber.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Congress.

2. 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) The justices rarely agree.
(b) Agreement is kind of boring.
(c) Only the truth mattered to the press.
(d) They do not pay much attention to the judiciary branch.

3. When Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School, she was one of how many women in a class of 500 students?
(a) 100.
(b) 50.
(c) 9.
(d) 2.

4. Who have benefited enormously from Ginsburg’s work?
(a) Both men and women.
(b) Children.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

5. In what year did Ginsburg begin the Women’s Rights Project?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1969.

6. 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?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1920.

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

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

9. According to the author, even when she is writing a dissent, Ginsburg’s words can be what?
(a) Both interesting and intelligent.
(b) Both powerful and damning.
(c) Both outrageous and right.
(d) Both subtle and submissive.

10. Why did Ginsburg live in Fort Sill, Oklahoma for a short time?
(a) This is where she received her first law clerk position.
(b) She has always loved the state of Oklahoma.
(c) Martin was stationed there during the Korean War.
(d) She has close family there.

11. 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 George Bush.
(d) President Richard Nixon.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer 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?

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

3. What is missing from the 1787 Constitution and from the Bill of Rights?

4. Supreme Court judges are infallible only because of what reason?

5. When does Ginsburg say it is appropriate for the Supreme Court to step in?

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