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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 should not enter into the way that a person is treated, according to Ginsburg?
(a) His or her birth status.
(b) His or her intelligence.
(c) His or her citizenship.
(d) His or her age.

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 judges and legislators had changed.
(c) The actions of those in the 1950s and 1960s had paved the way.
(d) Society had changed.

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

4. What advice did Ginsburg’s father-in-law give her, when she said she was not sure if she could manage a young child and law school?
(a) You cannot be both a good mother and a good lawyer.
(b) If you really want to be a lawyer, you will stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will find a way to do it.
(c) Do not complain to me, if you want advice.
(d) You should consider an easier career.

5. According to Ginsburg, a great man once said that the symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle but what?
(a) The pendulum.
(b) The crow.
(c) The automobile.
(d) The dollar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginsburg say will allow women to advance in the military?

2. What does Ginsburg think about the schools that openly take race into consideration when looking at student applications?

3. Who sought to educate the U.S. Supreme Court, step by step, about the pernicious effects of race discrimination?

4. Why did Ginsburg's client, Stephen Wisenfeld, not apply for social security benefits as caretaker of a deceased wage earner's child?

5. What does Ginsburg say saved her through her two bouts of cancer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ginsburg say about Judge Learned Hand?

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. Although Ginsburg believes that the etching above the Supreme Court’s entrance, “Equal Justice Under Law” has been realized for many minority groups, it has not been realized for what group?

7. What does Ginsburg think about gerrymandering?

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

9. What does Ginsburg say she would do if she were queen?

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

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