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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. Why did Ginsburg pick the ACLU?
2. What does Ginsburg think about the schools that openly take race into consideration when looking at student applications?
3. How does Ginsburg describe the 2017 Women's March?
4. How long did Ginsburg research cases and articles regarding gender in the law, when preparing a college course?
5. What does Ginsburg say in a speech at Georgetown University to think of yourself as, so as to not react in anger?
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 someone having it all in life?
3. What is meant when Ginsburg quotes someone as saying the symbol of the U.S. is not the bald eagle but the pendulum?
4. What does Ginsburg say she would do if she were queen?
5. What is Ginsburg’s argument for why heterosexual married couples should not worry about the benefits homosexual married couples would legally receive?
6. What are two things that Ginsburg says to remember and honor the late Justice Antonin Scalia?
7. Why does Ginsburg believe Apartheid in America really needed to go after World War II?
8. Why did Judge Palmieri give Ginsburg a chance and hire her to be his law clerk?
9. What were the three fronts in which work progressed for Ginsburg and her colleagues at the ACLU and law seminars?
10. What does Ginsburg think about gerrymandering?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ginsburg suffered from two bouts of cancer up to the writing of this book. How does she describe this experience? How does battling cancer affect her? What does this reveal or reinforce what you know about her? What can one learn from her experiences?
Essay Topic 2
Ginsburg says there were many indignities that she had to endure, being a woman. What are two examples of these indignities, as mentioned in the book? How do women still suffer indignities today? In your opinion, do men suffer from similar indignities? Explain.
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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