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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) You cannot be both a good mother and a good lawyer.
(b) If you really want to be a lawyer, you will stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will find a way to do it.
(c) Do not complain to me, if you want advice.
(d) You should consider an easier career.

2. What really had to go after World War II, according to Ginsburg?
(a) The US military.
(b) The idea that women should be in the military.
(c) Apartheid in America.
(d) Multi-generational homes.

3. When was the last time Ginsburg cooked?
(a) 1980.
(b) Yesterday.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1970.

4. At the University of Minnesota Law School, Ginsburg says you learn when?
(a) While you live.
(b) You are listening.
(c) From mentors.
(d) You are old.

5. What is Ginsburg’s lucky number?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

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

7. What does Ginsburg say will allow women to advance in the military?
(a) The separation of men and women in training and combat.
(b) The elimination of sex as an assignment determinant.
(c) Better physical training for women.
(d) More military schools that allow women.

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

9. What does Ginsburg say in a speech at Georgetown University to think of yourself as, so as to not react in anger?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A mother.
(c) A judge.
(d) A police officer.

10. Why did Ginsburg pick the ACLU?
(a) They cared about the rights of all people.
(b) They allowed Ginsburg to do as she pleased.
(c) They cared about black rights.
(d) They cared about women's rights.

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

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

13. How does Ginsburg judge the past?
(a) Very harshly.
(b) She does not judge them at all.
(c) Not harshly.
(d) Somewhat harshly.

14. What does Ginsburg say makes life beautiful, in the Washingtonian?
(a) Art.
(b) Children.
(c) Law.
(d) Democracy.

15. How long did Ginsburg research cases and articles regarding gender in the law, when preparing a college course?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 6 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a way that laws once governed women in the workplace, according to Ginsburg's quotes?

2. What is NOT a reason for why Ginsburg was not given equal pay, when she was hired at Rutgers in 1963?

3. Ginsburg says we remember Hitler's Europe, his Holocaust Kingdom, in what way and why?

4. What were the years that Ginsburg describes as hopeless, in regard to the women's rights movement?

5. Ginsburg says that, in one sense, their mission in the 1970s regarding gender equality was easy. Why?

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