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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. What is one of Ginsburg’s fondest memories?
(a) Playing the piano with her sister.
(b) Singing in her school choir.
(c) Going on hikes with her mother.
(d) Sitting on her mother’s lap, while she read to her.

2. What were the years that Ginsburg describes as hopeless, in regard to the women's rights movement?
(a) The '40s, '50s, and '60s.
(b) The '20s, '30s, and '40s.
(c) The '60s, '70s, and '80s.
(d) The '50s, '60s, and '70s.

3. What does Ginsburg say is the difference between a New York City garment district bookkeeper and a Supreme Court justice?
(a) There is no difference.
(b) Several years of education.
(c) A few blocks.
(d) One generation.

4. To what type of teacher does Ginsburg compare herself back in the 1970s?
(a) A math teacher.
(b) A kindergarten teacher.
(c) An art teacher.
(d) A political science teacher.

5. What does Ginsburg say she did to hide a pregnancy while a professor at Rutgers?
(a) Lied and said she had gained weight.
(b) Hid behind her desk whenever possible.
(c) Wore flowing muu muus.
(d) Wore her mother-in-law’s oversized clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a response that Ginsburg gives regarding what the labels liberal and conservative mean?

2. What is the advice Ginsburg says her mother-in-law gave her regarding marriage?

3. Why were women employees at one point not allowed health insurance coverage for their families?

4. How did Ginsburg feel when she saw the sign at the bed and breakfast saying that no dogs or Jews were allowed?

5. Why were gender lines struck down, one case after another, in the 1970s, according to Ginsburg?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is meant when Ginsburg quotes someone as saying the symbol of the U.S. is not the bald eagle but the pendulum?

3. How was pregnancy discrimination the same as gender discrimination?

4. What does Ginsburg say about someone having it all in life?

5. Who are two women Ginsburg names in this section: Part II: Civil Liberties: Free to Be You and Me? Who were/are these women, based on what is given in this book? Why does Ginsburg make them?

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

7. Why does Ginsburg’s believe that anti-abortion laws are dangerous?

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

9. How does Ginsburg address the concern that many will be overpaying for health insurance, when it comes to the Affordable Care Act?

10. Why does Ginsburg believe that contraceptives must be covered in health insurance plans?

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