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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 one of Ginsburg’s fondest memories?

2. Who is NOT a women's rights activist Ginsburg mentions?

3. How does Ginsburg feel about generalizations about the way women or men are?

4. How does Ginsburg feel when people say to make it to the top of the tree you have to give up a family?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Ginsburg say are the most impoverished around the world? Why?

2. What does Ginsburg think about gerrymandering?

3. Why does Ginsburg believe Apartheid in America really needed to go after World War II?

4. According to Ginsburg, why td women fail at the in-person interview stage in a hitting situation more often than men?

5. Why did Ginsburg study in various bathrooms while a student at Cornell?

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

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

8. What does Ginsburg say about Judge Learned Hand?

9. Why is the number two Ginsburg’s lucky number?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In 2017, Ginsburg mentions in a speech that a great jurist once said the way to fight false facts is by true facts. What does this mean? How might this be important today? What might be the trouble with this fact finding and fighting?

Essay Topic 2

Multiple times Ginsburg compares other branches of the government to that of the judicial branch. What does she say about these other branches? How do they compare to the judicial branch? Why might Ginsburg make these comparisons? What does this reveal about her opinions regarding the other branches of government? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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