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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is missing from the 1787 Constitution and from the Bill of Rights?

2. What does Ginsburg think about Criticism of the courts, and similarly criticism of other branches of government?

3. Any human rights guarantee that is phrased in grand, general terms is vulnerable to what campaign?

4. Ginsburg became the first woman to join what prestigious group at Harvard?

5. To what did President Bill Clinton nominate Ginsburg?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ginsburg and the Women's Rights Project go about dismantling discrimination laws?

2. What does Ginsburg say about the position of women as members of the courts?

3. What does Ginsburg say is the one key to both her and Justice O’Connor’s opinions?

4. What are Ginsburg's struggles as a liberal?

5. What does a University of Michigan survey say about lawyers who have graduated from their law school?

6. What role did Ginsburg's mother, Celia, play in Ginsburg's upbringing?

7. Why does Ginsburg believe that the Citizens United case was so important?

8. How does Ginsburg see her role regarding the law?

9. How did Ginsburg benefit from attending Cornell?

10. What are the hardest cases for Ginsburg and why does she believe she must still be involved in them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life and work has been extremely influential on the lives of everyday Americans. How has her work affected the lives of American citizens? What other events and organizations also played a role in the extensive changes that have taken place in American society and laws in the past seventy years? What connections exist between these events and organizations and Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

Essay Topic 2

Ginsburg talks a great deal about bad versus good and dark versus light. What types of people or groups fall into these two categories, based on what Ginsburg says? What do these groups have in common? Do you think most Americans would agree with Ginsburg? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Ginsburg says that it is not just men who slow the progress of the women’s rights movement. Why might women keep women from getting closer to true equality? What are ways that women put each other down? Why does this happen? What could be done to change this attitude and behavior of some women?

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