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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What case held Virginia's ban on interracial marriages unconstitutional?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Loving v. Virginia.
(c) Roe v. Wade.
(d) Brown v. Virginia.

2. What is one reason Ginsburg does NOT say same-sex marriages should take place?
(a) Homosexual marriages would not take away the benefits for those in heterosexual marriages.
(b) If you love someone and want to marry that person, it should not matter whether it is the same sex or opposite.
(c) Homosexuals around the country would riot if they did not receive the same treatment as heterosexual couples.
(d) Sexual relations are not for the purpose of procreation alone, so that is not a valid reason for not allowing same-sex marriage.

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

4. 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) Continue to pay more than their fair share.
(d) Pay nothing.

5. How does Ginsburg say we can fight darkness and inhumanity?
(a) By using U.S. military might to fight our foes.
(b) By taking shelter in the security of our own nation.
(c) By joining hands with others of like mind.
(d) By closing the US borders.

6. 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 preferable to those that conceal it.
(c) They are apprehensible.
(d) They are worse than the schools who secretly take race into consideration.

7. 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) Ella Fitzgerald.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

8. In 1837, Sara Grimke asked men to take their feet from what?
(a) Our backs.
(b) Our necks.
(c) Our laps.
(d) Their shoes.

9. What is a response that Ginsburg gives regarding what the labels liberal and conservative mean?
(a) There is no thing as liberal or conservative.
(b) I am neither liberal nor conservative.
(c) It depends on whose ox is being gored.
(d) I wish these labels do not exist.

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

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

12. Why should the courts stay out of the business of evaluating the merits of religious groups?
(a) They may be accused of favoring one religion over another.
(b) They know nothing about religion.
(c) They may allow less religious freedoms.
(d) They may ban all religions.

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

14. Ginsburg says the idea in the 1950s and 1960s regarding why a woman's voice could be tuned out was what?
(a) She was no smarter than a dog.
(b) She was just like a small child.
(c) She had nothing significant to say.
(d) She was uneducated and therefore unimportant.

15. 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 time of day women were allowed to work.
(c) Laws prescribed the maximum number of a woman could work.
(d) Laws regarding required education for women.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Why did Ginsburg endure discrimination?

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

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

5. Where did Ginsburg frequently study, while at Cornell?

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