View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why were women employees at one point not allowed health insurance coverage for their families?
(a) They were not considered the earner who counts.
(b) They did not earn enough to cover family insurance.
(c) There was no such thing as health insurance for families.
(d) They were not trusted with such responsibility.

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

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

5. Ginsburg always thought there was nothing this type of person would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, so as to not touch a man's world.
(a) Antifeminists.
(b) Hippies.
(c) Feminists.
(d) Masculinists.

6. What happens if we do not protect the people we do not like, according to Ginsburg?
(a) We are going to lose protections for ourselves.
(b) We are going to encourage them to find another place to live.
(c) We will encounter a great deal of rioting.
(d) We are going to have a much smaller US population.

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

8. What does Ginsburg think about the schools that openly take race into consideration when looking at student applications?
(a) They should lose any and all public funding.
(b) They are worse than the schools who secretly take race into consideration.
(c) They are preferable to those that conceal it.
(d) They are apprehensible.

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

10. Where did Ginsburg go in the summers of '62 and '63 that changed her mind regarding the women's rights movement?
(a) Sweden.
(b) South Africa.
(c) England.
(d) Canada.

11. What are the two things that Ginsburg’s mother said she should be?
(a) A lady and independent.
(b) Smart and witty.
(c) Energetic and demanding.
(d) Kind and merciful.

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

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

14. 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 cannot stomach difficult court cases.
(c) Women are not intelligent enough.
(d) Women are too emotional.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason Ginsburg does NOT say same-sex marriages should take place?

2. According to Ginsburg, a great man once said that the symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle but what?

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

4. What is one of Ginsburg’s fondest memories?

5. What does Ginsburg say in a speech at Georgetown University to think of yourself as, so as to not react in anger?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 853 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample