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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 say about special treatment towards women?
(a) Women need more special treatment.
(b) It has kept them away from equal opportunity for so long.
(c) Special treatment is bringing women closer to equality with men.
(d) It should assumed that women deserve special treatment.

2. How did Ginsburg feel when she saw the sign at the bed and breakfast saying that no dogs or Jews were allowed?
(a) She was confused, as she is not Jewish.
(b) She was sad, because she really wanted to stay at that particular bed and breakfast.
(c) She was worried, because she thought the family was possibly part of the KKK.
(d) She was upset, because she was proud of being born and bred in the USA.

3. What does Ginsburg say is a two-edged sword?
(a) Human sexuality.
(b) Women's rights.
(c) The Civil Rights Movement.
(d) Every gender discrimination.

4. What is one reason Ginsburg does NOT say same-sex marriages should take place?
(a) If you love someone and want to marry that person, it should not matter whether it is the same sex or opposite.
(b) Homosexuals around the country would riot if they did not receive the same treatment as heterosexual couples.
(c) Homosexual marriages would not take away the benefits for those in heterosexual marriages.
(d) Sexual relations are not for the purpose of procreation alone, so that is not a valid reason for not allowing same-sex marriage.

5. In 1837, Sara Grimke asked men to take their feet from what?
(a) Our necks.
(b) Our backs.
(c) Their shoes.
(d) Our laps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginsburg say makes life beautiful, in the Washingtonian?

2. Unlike Ginsburg’s ancestors in their exodus from Egypt, we must rely on what?

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

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

5. According to Ginsburg, a great man once said that the symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle but what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Ginsburg think about gerrymandering?

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

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

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

10. What does Ginsburg say about Judge Learned Hand?

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