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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. Who is bound to be sympathetic to others who encounter discrimination?
(a) Those who are well-traveled.
(b) People who have known discrimination.
(c) The government.
(d) The poor.

2. What case held Virginia's ban on interracial marriages unconstitutional?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Brown v. Virginia.
(c) Loving v. Virginia.
(d) Roe v. Wade.

3. Who is NOT a women's rights activist Ginsburg mentions?
(a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(b) Susan B. Anthony.
(c) Zelda Fitzgerald.
(d) Sara Grimke.

4. In what year was the VRA first put into effect?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1955.

5. Where did Ginsburg go in the summers of '62 and '63 that changed her mind regarding the women's rights movement?
(a) South Africa.
(b) England.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Ginsburg give regarding not being shy and speaking up?

2. What does Ginsburg say is the difference between a New York City garment district bookkeeper and a Supreme Court justice?

3. What is the hardest job Ginsburg says she has ever had?

4. What really had to go after World War II, according to Ginsburg?

5. What does Ginsburg say she did to hide a pregnancy while a professor at Rutgers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ginsburg think about institutions of higher learning who clearly state that they take race into consideration when looking at applicants?

2. What were the three fronts in which work progressed for Ginsburg and her colleagues at the ACLU and law seminars?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Ginsburg believe it is important for the courts to stay out of the business of putting one religion and its beliefs up against another?

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

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