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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 does Ginsburg feel when people say to make it to the top of the tree you have to give up a family?
(a) It pleases her.
(b) It does not phase her.
(c) It angers her.
(d) It bothers her.

2. Who told Ginsburg she should change the wording from 'sex' to 'gender'?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her secretary at Columbia Law School.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) Her daughter.

3. Ginsburg describes a summer education program run by Princeton in which girls are not allowed. Why?
(a) They distract boys from their studies.
(b) They do not have the facilities to accommodate girls.
(c) They are not smart enough.
(d) They cannot attend Princeton.

4. When Ginsburg was on the Law Review at Harvard, why was she not allowed into Lamont Library?
(a) She was a woman.
(b) She was only a freshman.
(c) She was too young.
(d) She was not a lawyer.

5. What did Ginsburg and O’Connor have in common, regarding their health?
(a) They both had colon cancer.
(b) They both suffered from cancer.
(c) They both underwent mastectomies.
(d) They both had two children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should the courts stay out of the business of evaluating the merits of religious groups?

2. Why was it considered okay for women to be left out of jury duty?

3. What are the two things that Ginsburg’s mother said she should be?

4. How does Ginsburg say her daughter, Jane, helps her?

5. What does Ginsburg think about the schools that openly take race into consideration when looking at student applications?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ginsburg believe should be done regarding illegal immigrants?

2. What is Ginsburg’s argument for why heterosexual married couples should not worry about the benefits homosexual married couples would legally receive?

3. Why did Ginsburg study in various bathrooms while a student at Cornell?

4. What does Ginsburg think about gerrymandering?

5. According to Ginsburg, why td women fail at the in-person interview stage in a hitting situation more often than men?

6. Why does Ginsburg believe Apartheid in America really needed to go after World War II?

7. What did the dean of Harvard Law School do to the women in the first-year class?

8. What issues does Ginsberg have with Roe v. Wade?

9. What does Ginsburg say about Judge Learned Hand?

10. Who does Ginsburg say are the most impoverished around the world? Why?

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