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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 should not enter into the way that a person is treated, according to Ginsburg?

2. What year did Title VII become effective?

3. What does Ginsburg say to not do when one is slighted?

4. Why should the courts stay out of the business of evaluating the merits of religious groups?

5. Ginsburg says the idea in the 1950s and 1960s regarding why a woman's voice could be tuned out was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Judge Palmieri give Ginsburg a chance and hire her to be his law clerk?

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

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

4. What are two ways in which Ginsburg was discriminated against as an employee at Rutgers?

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

6. How was pregnancy discrimination the same as gender discrimination?

7. Why does Ginsburg’s believe that anti-abortion laws are dangerous?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

When Ginsburg was at Cornell, she did much of her studying in the bathroom. Why was this? What did this reflect about society at the time? How has society changed? Has it, in any way, stayed liked this? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was encouraged to attend Cornell. Why was she encouraged to attend this school? Do you find this surprising? Why or why not? What does this say about the time period in which Ruth was born and raised?

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