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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 was a question asked to Justice Scalia a couple of days before President Clinton nominated Ginsburg for the Supreme Court?
(a) If you could any judge join the bench, who would it be?
(b) If you were stranded on a desert island with your new court colleague, who would you prefer?
(c) Who is the smartest of the possible justice candidates?
(d) Who would you want to replace you as a justice?

2. Why were gender lines struck down, one case after another, in the 1970s, according to Ginsburg?
(a) The lawyers were better at making their cases against gender discrimination.
(b) The actions of those in the 1950s and 1960s had paved the way.
(c) Society had changed.
(d) The judges and legislators had changed.

3. What plan does Ginsburg say may hasten the closing of the divide between various races in the U.S.?
(a) The Me Too Movement.
(b) Affirmative Action.
(c) The Civil Rights Movement.
(d) Black Lives Matter.

4. To what does Ginsburg compare the important issue of healthcare today?
(a) Dental and eye care of the 1940s.
(b) Senior and survivor benefits of the 1930s.
(c) The lack of healthcare during the Industrial Revolution.
(d) Universal healthcare in other countries.

5. Why were women employees at one point not allowed health insurance coverage for their families?
(a) There was no such thing as health insurance for families.
(b) They were not considered the earner who counts.
(c) They were not trusted with such responsibility.
(d) They did not earn enough to cover family insurance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Ginsburg’s professor at Cornell who changed the way she read and wrote?

3. What does Ginsburg say about special treatment towards women?

4. Ginsburg describes a summer education program run by Princeton in which girls are not allowed. Why?

5. How does Ginsburg describe the American Dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two things that Ginsburg says to remember and honor the late Justice Antonin Scalia?

2. What does Ginsburg say about attending law school while being married with a child?

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

4. 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?

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

6. Why is the number two Ginsburg’s lucky number?

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

8. In what case does Ginsberg believe that anti-abortion laws are unconstitutional?

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

10. What does Ginsburg say about her suffering from two bouts of cancer?

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