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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were gender lines struck down, one case after another, in the 1970s, according to Ginsburg?
(a) The actions of those in the 1950s and 1960s had paved the way.
(b) The judges and legislators had changed.
(c) The lawyers were better at making their cases against gender discrimination.
(d) Society had changed.

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

3. According to Ginsburg, a great man once said that the symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle but what?
(a) The automobile.
(b) The crow.
(c) The pendulum.
(d) The dollar.

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

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

6. In a talk in 1978, Ginsburg says that Civil Rights laws do not prohibit discrimination on what basis?
(a) Religion.
(b) Sex.
(c) Race.
(d) National origin.

7. 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) Everyone was ready for change.
(c) Ginsburg and her female colleagues were smarter than their male counterparts.
(d) There was nothing subtle about the way things were.

8. What is the hardest job Ginsburg says she has ever had?
(a) Being a woman.
(b) Being a wife.
(c) Being a Supreme Court Justice.
(d) Being a mother.

9. How long does Ginsburg say she will do her job?
(a) For the rest of her life.
(b) For as long as she can do it full steam.
(c) For one more year.
(d) For as long as the other justices want her around.

10. Ginsburg says her son, James, was described as what by his teachers?
(a) Hyperactive.
(b) Brilliant.
(c) Slow.
(d) Shy.

11. The young who pay more than their fair share towards healthcare will do what in old age?
(a) Pay nothing.
(b) Continue to pay more than their fair share.
(c) Pay less than their fair share.
(d) Pay what they should.

12. How did the court respond in Reed v. Reed?
(a) It responded unanimously against Sally Reed.
(b) It responded barely in favor of Sally Reed.
(c) It responded unanimously in favor of Sally Reed.
(d) It responded barely against Sally Reed.

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

14. What is NOT a way that laws once governed women in the workplace, according to Ginsburg's quotes?
(a) Laws prescribed the time of day women were allowed to work.
(b) Laws regarding required education for women.
(c) Laws barred women from dangerous or inappropriate occupations.
(d) Laws prescribed the maximum number of a woman could work.

15. What are the two factors Ginsburg lists as to why the atmosphere regarding the women's rights movement changed in the late 1960s?
(a) The virtual disappearance of food and goods cultivated or produced at home and the access to more effective means of birth control.
(b) More women were in the workforce and more men were staying home with children.
(c) The economy was much improved and the civil rights movement had changed the attitudes of many regarding African Americans.
(d) Men began to care about women as equals and women had earned the right to vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ginsburg was on the Law Review at Harvard, why was she not allowed into Lamont Library?

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

3. Why did Ginsburg's client, Stephen Wisenfeld, not apply for social security benefits as caretaker of a deceased wage earner's child?

4. What case held Virginia's ban on interracial marriages unconstitutional?

5. What does Ginsburg say about special treatment towards women?

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