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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. According to the author, even when she is writing a dissent, Ginsburg’s words can be what?
(a) Both outrageous and right.
(b) Both subtle and submissive.
(c) Both interesting and intelligent.
(d) Both powerful and damning.

2. In Ginsburg’s growing up years, to what could a girl aspire, if she wanted to have a career?
(a) Nursing.
(b) Lawyering.
(c) Mothering.
(d) Teaching.

3. The few women who braved law school in the 1950s and 1960s, it was generally supposed, presented what, regarding men?
(a) A threat to the role of all women.
(b) A real challenge for male students.
(c) No real challenge or competition.
(d) Many questions that must be answered regarding the role of women in law.

4. Some studies suggest that which profession is one of the most unhappy and unhealthy on the face of the earth?
(a) Government.
(b) Finance.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Legal.

5. Most men of the bench and bar had what the French call what, regarding the unyielding conviction that women and lawyering do not mix?
(a) Nationalité superbe.
(b) Idée fixe.
(c) Idée forte.
(d) La tradition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an activist judge, according to Ginsburg?

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

3. From where does the Supreme Court’s power come?

4. To what is a judge bound regarding court cases?

5. A justice contemplating publication of a separate writing, should always ask herself what question?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the hardest cases for Ginsburg and why does she believe she must still be involved in them?

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

3. What is the purpose of a written dissent?

4. Why did it take so long for Ginsburg to get involved in the women's rights movement?

5. What does Ginsburg say about our common law system of adjudication and settling matters?

6. How does Ginsburg, in a way, disagree with Hamilton's comment that the judiciary was the least dangerous branch because it possessed neither the purse nor the sword?

7. How was Martin Ginsburg unlike the average male Cornell undergraduate?

8. What does Ginsburg say is the one key to both her and Justice O’Connor’s opinions?

9. Why does Ginsburg think it is important to ask the question, "Is this dissent or concurrence really necessary?"

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

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