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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. According to Ginsburg’s husband, who was a law school teacher, whose hand would shout up first to answer a question?

2. Women were not on the bench in numbers, on the federal bench, until what president?

3. What is Ginsburg craft, according to her?

4. Can the job of giving men and women equal rights be done without an equal rights amendment?

5. What was the breakthrough on the United States Supreme Court?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ginsburg believe regarding the area of law appropriate for women?

2. What concerns Ginsburg regarding feminism and feminist legal theory, in particular?

3. Why did Ginsburg struggle to find work, even after tying for first in her class at Columbia Law School?

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

5. Why did it take so long for Ginsburg to get involved in the women's rights movement?

6. What reason does Ginsburg give for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?

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

8. What does Ginsburg say regarding studies on job satisfaction for those in the legal profession?

9. How are judges different than legislators, according to Ginsburg?

10. Why does Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s husband recommend, when calling on a student in class to answer a question, to not choose the students whose hand goes up first?

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 strongly believes that the Courts would benefit from adopting the Equal Rights Amendment. What is the Equal Rights Amendment, based on what has been said in this book? How would the Courts benefit? Why might someone oppose the inclusion of the Equal Rights Amendment?

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