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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. How old is the U.S. Constitution at the time Ginsburg mentions its age in a speech?
(a) Nearly 120 years old.
(b) Nearly 220 years old.
(c) Nearly 300 years old.
(d) Nearly 320 years old.

2. What is the name Ginsburg was given at birth?
(a) Jill Ruth Bader.
(b) Joan Ruth Bader.
(c) Ruth Joan Ginsburg.
(d) Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

3. What type of argument is very important, because it is the first time all nine justices are thinking about issues together?
(a) Oral argument.
(b) Deductive argument.
(c) Written argument.
(d) Inductive argument.

4. In what year did Ginsburg begin the Women’s Rights Project?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1982.

5. What does Ginsburg think about Criticism of the courts, and similarly criticism of other branches of government?
(a) It should be ignored.
(b) It should not be resented.
(c) It should not take place.
(d) It should be silenced.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ginsburg feel about women arguing every kind of case that comes before the court?

2. Who did the Founding Father believe bestowed human rights?

3. When does Ginsburg say it is appropriate for the Supreme Court to step in?

4. What does Zedek, Zedek, tirdof mean?

5. Today, about what percent of the nation’s law students are women?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What concerns Ginsburg regarding feminism and feminist legal theory, in particular?

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

5. How did Ginsburg and the Women's Rights Project go about dismantling discrimination laws?

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

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

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

9. What were the injustices being done by Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee?

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

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