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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. How does Ginsburg describe the 2017 Women's March?
2. What was a question asked to Justice Scalia a couple of days before President Clinton nominated Ginsburg for the Supreme Court?
3. What is NOT a reason for why Ginsburg was not given equal pay, when she was hired at Rutgers in 1963?
4. What really had to go after World War II, according to Ginsburg?
5. Ginsburg always thought there was nothing this type of person would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, so as to not touch a man's world.
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Ginsburg’s argument for why heterosexual married couples should not worry about the benefits homosexual married couples would legally receive?
2. Why is the number two Ginsburg’s lucky number?
3. Why does Ginsburg’s believe that anti-abortion laws are dangerous?
4. What does Ginsburg say about someone having it all in life?
5. Why did Ginsburg study in various bathrooms while a student at Cornell?
6. How was pregnancy discrimination the same as gender discrimination?
7. Why did Judge Palmieri give Ginsburg a chance and hire her to be his law clerk?
8. What does Ginsburg say about Judge Learned Hand?
9. What does Ginsburg say about her suffering from two bouts of cancer?
10. In what case does Ginsberg believe that anti-abortion laws are unconstitutional?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What does Ginsburg say about the role of the judge? What people and events in her life have influenced this attitude? What does she say about the problems that can arise if a judge does not agree with her? How does she feel the appointment for life as a Supreme Court Justice aid the judges in doing their jobs as she believes they should be done?
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