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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Maintaining what is always difficult in times of terror, according to Ginsburg?
(a) Liberty and freedom.
(b) Sanity and clarity.
(c) Truth and unity.
(d) Love and honor.

3. What was a question asked to Justice Scalia a couple of days before President Clinton nominated Ginsburg for the Supreme Court?
(a) Who would you want to replace you as a justice?
(b) If you could any judge join the bench, who would it be?
(c) Who is the smartest of the possible justice candidates?
(d) If you were stranded on a desert island with your new court colleague, who would you prefer?

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

5. How does Ginsburg describe the American Dream?
(a) A place where all people have easy lives.
(b) A place where people of all kinds appreciate differences and pull together for the long haul.
(c) A chance to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.
(d) Every American owning their own home and car.

6. 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) Most men sided with the feminists.
(d) Ginsburg and her female colleagues were smarter than their male counterparts.

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

8. What plan does Ginsburg say may hasten the closing of the divide between various races in the U.S.?
(a) The Me Too Movement.
(b) The Civil Rights Movement.
(c) Affirmative Action.
(d) Black Lives Matter.

9. What does Ginsburg say is the difference between a New York City garment district bookkeeper and a Supreme Court justice?
(a) Several years of education.
(b) There is no difference.
(c) A few blocks.
(d) One generation.

10. Although security is important, what else does Ginsburg say must be preserved, in times of terror?
(a) Individual rights.
(b) State rights.
(c) Religious rights.
(d) Federal rights.

11. 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) Men began to care about women as equals and women had earned the right to vote.
(c) More women were in the workforce and more men were staying home with children.
(d) The economy was much improved and the civil rights movement had changed the attitudes of many regarding African Americans.

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

13. A great jurist once said the way to fight false facts is what?
(a) By ignoring those facts we do not like.
(b) By making up even greater false facts.
(c) By true facts.
(d) By banning all news.

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

15. The court today arms the police with a way to routinely dishonor what amendment, regarding warrants?
(a) The Tenth Amendment.
(b) The Fourth Amendment.
(c) The Sixth Amendment.
(d) The Second Amendment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ginsburg go in the summers of '62 and '63 that changed her mind regarding the women's rights movement?

2. How does Ginsburg describe Gunther’s comment to Judge Palmieri, when he says that, if Ginsburg cannot cut it, another man from her class would take over for her?

3. Why should the courts stay out of the business of evaluating the merits of religious groups?

4. Who told Ginsburg she should change the wording from 'sex' to 'gender'?

5. What does Ginsburg say makes life beautiful, in the Washingtonian?

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