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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ginsburg think of the expression, "women's rights"?
(a) It is a bit problematic.
(b) It describes the issue perfectly.
(c) It is completely inaccurate.
(d) It is outdated.

2. What does Ginsburg say to not do when one is slighted?
(a) See it as a teachable moment.
(b) Take it as an opportunity to share knowledge.
(c) Come up with a witty response.
(d) React in anger.

3. What does Ginsburg say she did to hide a pregnancy while a professor at Rutgers?
(a) Wore her mother-in-law’s oversized clothes.
(b) Wore flowing muu muus.
(c) Lied and said she had gained weight.
(d) Hid behind her desk whenever possible.

4. What did Ginsburg and O’Connor have in common, regarding their health?
(a) They both suffered from cancer.
(b) They both had colon cancer.
(c) They both underwent mastectomies.
(d) They both had two children.

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

6. What should not enter into the way that a person is treated, according to Ginsburg?
(a) His or her citizenship.
(b) His or her intelligence.
(c) His or her birth status.
(d) His or her age.

7. Who is bound to be sympathetic to others who encounter discrimination?
(a) The government.
(b) People who have known discrimination.
(c) Those who are well-traveled.
(d) The poor.

8. Ginsburg says we remember Hitler's Europe, his Holocaust Kingdom, in what way and why?
(a) In sorrow, because it was not lawless.
(b) In awe, because he was so skilled a leader, albeit terrible.
(c) In fear, because she sees the US following the same course.
(d) In anger, because it never should have happened.

9. What does Ginsburg say about people who do not see that their vote counts?
(a) It is not a good thing for democracy.
(b) It means that they are confident in who is already in charge.
(c) They should be denied other rights, if they do not see the importance of their votes.
(d) They do not know enough about how voting works.

10. Ginsburg describes 1950s graffiti. What does this graffiti NOT say?
(a) Get a good job.
(b) Get your degree.
(c) Study hard.
(d) Get married.

11. 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.

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

13. According to Ginsburg, who is affected the most by anti-abortion laws?
(a) White women.
(b) Blank women.
(c) All women.
(d) Poor women.

14. Ginsburg describes a summer education program run by Princeton in which girls are not allowed. Why?
(a) They do not have the facilities to accommodate girls.
(b) They are not smart enough.
(c) They cannot attend Princeton.
(d) They distract boys from their studies.

15. To what does Ginsburg compare the important issue of healthcare today?
(a) The lack of healthcare during the Industrial Revolution.
(b) Universal healthcare in other countries.
(c) Senior and survivor benefits of the 1930s.
(d) Dental and eye care of the 1940s.

Short Answer Questions

1. The court today arms the police with a way to routinely dishonor what amendment, regarding warrants?

2. How did Ginsburg feel when she saw the sign at the bed and breakfast saying that no dogs or Jews were allowed?

3. What does Ginsburg say is the difference between a New York City garment district bookkeeper and a Supreme Court justice?

4. Why were gender lines struck down, one case after another, in the 1970s, according to Ginsburg?

5. According to Ginsburg, how did Judges and legislators of the 1960s and part of the 1970s view differential treatment of men and women?

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