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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where and when was Ginsburg born?
(a) Chicago in 1923.
(b) Boston in 1933.
(c) Brooklyn in 1933.
(d) Queens in 1943.

2. Every modern human rights document has what statement?
(a) The laws do not apply to the wealthy.
(b) Men and women are equal before the law.
(c) Men and women are treated differently before the law.
(d) Men are equal before the law.

3. Women were not on the bench in numbers, on the federal bench, until what president?
(a) Calvin Coolidge.
(b) Jimmy Carter.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

4. When Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School, she was one of how many women in a class of 500 students?
(a) 2.
(b) 50.
(c) 9.
(d) 100.

5. What does Zedek, Zedek, tirdof mean?
(a) Government, Government, do what is right.
(b) Justice, Justice shalt thou pursue.
(c) Laws, Laws, are so tiresome.
(d) Leaders, Leaders guide your people well.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ginsburg, to make sure that the judges are not infusing their own beliefs and ideas into the constitutional text, how should the law be read?

2. Women have played important roles regarding law, according to what sources?

3. What is the basic statement in the Declaration of Independence that all persons are equally entitled to fundamental human rights?

4. Who was Ginsburg’s biggest booster?

5. Ginsburg says that she and other female law students felt that if they were called on in class, they had to get it right, because of what reason?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ginsburg involve herself in death penalty cases?

2. How was Ginsburg recognized by Presidents of the United States?

3. What is the purpose of a written dissent?

4. How did Ginsburg benefit from attending Cornell?

5. What does Ginsburg believe about the future of her dissents?

6. What does a University of Michigan survey say about lawyers who have graduated from their law school?

7. How does Ginsburg see her role regarding the law?

8. What reason does Ginsburg give for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?

9. What are Ginsburg's struggles as a liberal?

10. What does Ginsburg say about the position of women as members of the courts?

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