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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 does Ginsburg think about inherent differences between men and women?
(a) They do not exist.
(b) They are embarrassing.
(c) They should be ignored.
(d) They should be celebrated.

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

3. How long did Ginsburg research cases and articles regarding gender in the law, when preparing a college course?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 2 weeks.

4. What is NOT a way that laws once governed women in the workplace, according to Ginsburg's quotes?
(a) Laws prescribed the maximum number of a woman could work.
(b) Laws regarding required education for women.
(c) Laws prescribed the time of day women were allowed to work.
(d) Laws barred women from dangerous or inappropriate occupations.

5. The court today arms the police with a way to routinely dishonor what amendment, regarding warrants?
(a) The Fourth Amendment.
(b) The Second Amendment.
(c) The Tenth Amendment.
(d) The Sixth Amendment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a talk in 1978, Ginsburg says that Civil Rights laws do not prohibit discrimination on what basis?

2. What did Ginsburg and O’Connor have in common, regarding their health?

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

4. What name was Ginsburg given that resembles a famous rapper’s name?

5. Ginsburg says the idea in the 1950s and 1960s regarding why a woman's voice could be tuned out was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ginsburg say about the Texas law that made consensual same-sex relations illegal?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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