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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. To what is a judge bound regarding court cases?
(a) Public opinion.
(b) To the laws as they were created and interpreted over 200 years ago.
(c) To decide each case fairly, in accord with the relevant facts and the applicable law.
(d) The beliefs of the other branches of the government.

2. What are the hardest cases for Ginsdburg?
(a) The cases involving minorities or women.
(b) Death penalty cases.
(c) The cases involving children.
(d) The intricate cases.

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

4. What is an activist judge, according to Ginsburg?
(a) One who stands up for current social issues.
(b) One who is a conservative.
(c) One who willingly strikes down laws passed by the political branches.
(d) One who is a liberal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who recognized Ginsburg’s keen sense of justice when he appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit?

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

3. What makes judges unlike legislators?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Ginsburg think of campaign finance regulation?

6. Why does Ginsburg believe that the Citizens United case was so important?

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

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

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

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

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