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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of Ginsburg’s fondest memories?
(a) Sitting on her mother’s lap, while she read to her.
(b) Going on hikes with her mother.
(c) Playing the piano with her sister.
(d) Singing in her school choir.

2. Why was it considered okay for women to be left out of jury duty?
(a) Women are the center of home and family life.
(b) Women are too emotional.
(c) Women cannot stomach difficult court cases.
(d) Women are not intelligent enough.

3. Who does Ginsburg say has control over the lives of hardworking, taxpaying illegal immigrants?
(a) Congress.
(b) Local law officials.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) Local businesses.

4. What remedy best suited to block voting discrimination was terminated in 2013?
(a) The Voting Riots Act.
(b) The Voting Rights Act.
(c) The Voter Return Act.
(d) The Voter Republic Act.

5. Who is NOT a women's rights activist Ginsburg mentions?
(a) Susan B. Anthony.
(b) Zelda Fitzgerald.
(c) Sara Grimke.
(d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

6. When Ginsburg was on the Law Review at Harvard, why was she not allowed into Lamont Library?
(a) She was a woman.
(b) She was not a lawyer.
(c) She was only a freshman.
(d) She was too young.

7. According to Ginsburg, how did Judges and legislators of the 1960s and part of the 1970s view differential treatment of men and women?
(a) Absolutely necessary for balance in our society.
(b) Operating in women's favor.
(c) Expected in all societies.
(d) Operating in men's favor.

8. Why did Ginsburg endure discrimination?
(a) She thought it came with the territory.
(b) She was not interested in changing the status quo.
(c) She was too exhausted to do anything else.
(d) She was afraid of what her male colleagues would think if she complained.

9. Who was Ginsburg’s professor at Cornell who changed the way she read and wrote?
(a) Wassily Kandinsky.
(b) Wassily Beluska.
(c) Vladimir Putin.
(d) Vladimir Nabokov.

10. Why does segregation in many schools still exist?
(a) The law has not completely changed for educational institutions.
(b) Many families are happy with the segregated schools their children attend.
(c) Geographical boundaries left over from segregation still remain.
(d) Many small towns still support segregation, but in a quiet way so as to not catch the attention of the federal government.

11. Who sought to educate the U.S. Supreme Court, step by step, about the pernicious effects of race discrimination?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Ella Fitzgerald.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

12. What does Ginsburg think about inherent differences between men and women?
(a) They should be celebrated.
(b) They should be ignored.
(c) They are embarrassing.
(d) They do not exist.

13. Ginsburg says that, in one sense, their mission in the 1970s regarding gender equality was easy. Why?
(a) Most men sided with the feminists.
(b) Ginsburg and her female colleagues were smarter than their male counterparts.
(c) There was nothing subtle about the way things were.
(d) Everyone was ready for change.

14. What is one reason Ginsburg does NOT say same-sex marriages should take place?
(a) Sexual relations are not for the purpose of procreation alone, so that is not a valid reason for not allowing same-sex marriage.
(b) Homosexual marriages would not take away the benefits for those in heterosexual marriages.
(c) If you love someone and want to marry that person, it should not matter whether it is the same sex or opposite.
(d) Homosexuals around the country would riot if they did not receive the same treatment as heterosexual couples.

15. Who are the two people to whom Ginsburg attributes her law school success?
(a) Her in-laws.
(b) Her colleagues.
(c) Her husband and daughter.
(d) Her mother and father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Title VII become effective?

2. Who invited the first-year class of female students at Harvard Law School to a private dinner?

3. What advice did Ginsburg’s father-in-law give her, when she said she was not sure if she could manage a young child and law school?

4. How does Ginsburg judge the past?

5. How does Ginsburg feel when people say to make it to the top of the tree you have to give up a family?

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