View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Although the judiciary branch does not possess either the purse or the sword, they do possess what two things?
(a) Reason and judgment.
(b) Wealth and might.
(c) Intelligence and humor.
(d) Humility and loyalty.

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

4. Who said, “If Ruth and I came of age in a time when there was no discrimination against women, we would be retired partners in a major law firm”?
(a) Martin Ginsburg.
(b) Celia Bader.
(c) Florence Allen.
(d) Sandra Day O’Connor.

5. What would relieve the Court’s uneasiness in the gray zone between interpretation and amendment of the Constitution?
(a) The exclusion of the Bill of Rights.
(b) The adoption of the Bill of Rights.
(c) The exclusion of the equal rights amendment.
(d) The adoption of the equal rights amendment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ginsburg’s biggest booster?

2. Women were not on the bench in numbers, on the federal bench, until what president?

3. What type of argument is very important, because it is the first time all nine justices are thinking about issues together?

4. What does Zedek, Zedek, tirdof mean?

5. What was the breakthrough on the United States Supreme Court?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s husband recommend, when calling on a student in class to answer a question, to not choose the students whose hand goes up first?

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

5. Why did Ginsburg struggle to find work, even after tying for first in her class at Columbia Law School?

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

7. 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?

8. Why does Ginsburg consider the current conservative Court to be filled with activist judges?

9. What does Ginsburg think of campaign finance regulation?

10. What is the purpose of a written dissent?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 928 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample