View a FREE sample

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 citizenship.
(b) His or her intelligence.
(c) His or her birth status.
(d) His or her age.

2. What is the advice Ginsburg says her mother-in-law gave her regarding marriage?
(a) Make your husband think he is always right.
(b) It helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
(c) Take marriage one day at a time.
(d) It helps being a good cook.

3. When was the last time Ginsburg cooked?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1980.
(d) Yesterday.

4. In a talk in 1978, Ginsburg says that Civil Rights laws do not prohibit discrimination on what basis?
(a) Religion.
(b) National origin.
(c) Sex.
(d) Race.

5. What important role does Ginsburg think the press has played regarding the government?
(a) Minions.
(b) Creator of false news.
(c) Watchdog.
(d) Guide for telling the truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did Ginsburg go in the summers of '62 and '63 that changed her mind regarding the women's rights movement?

4. Where did Ginsburg frequently study, while at Cornell?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Ginsburg say about Judge Learned Hand?

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

4. 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?

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

6. What is Ginsburg’s argument for why heterosexual married couples should not worry about the benefits homosexual married couples would legally receive?

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

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

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

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,017 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample