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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2010, how many years did Ginsburg say that she devoted her life to litigating cases about the equal citizenship stature of men and women?
(a) 5.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

2. In Chapter 4, where did Susan Struck end up being stationed?
(a) Kirkland Air Force Base.
(b) Minot Air Force Base.
(c) Barksdale Air Force Base.
(d) Francis E. Warren Air Force Base.

3. When did Columbia offer Ginsburg the opportunity to become the law school's first tenured female professor?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1973.

4. What time was curfew when Gingsburg attended Cornell as an undergraduate?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 11 p.m.
(c) 10:30 p.m.
(d) 10 p.m.

5. In 1978, what percent of students enrolled at Harvard Law school were women?
(a) 40.
(b) 45.
(c) 25.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Supreme Court rule for Sally Reed in Chapter 4?

2. Where did Ginsburg grow up?

3. What instrument did Gingsburg play in high school?

4. In Chapter 4, when did Ginsburg skip lunch?

5. How old was Ginsburg when her mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ginsburg urge her fellow feminists to seek change and why?

2. What book did Ginsburg co-write in 1961, and how did it affect her life?

3. Why was it a surprise for Ginsburg to learn that she was pregnant in 1965?

4. What were times that people thought Ginsburg would retire from the Supreme Court, and how did she prove them wrong?

5. How did Ginsburg become a co-counsel on the case Reed v. Reed?

6. How did Marty and Ginsburg start going together?

7. Why did Ginsburg skip lunch on the morning of January 17, 1973?

8. In Chapter 1, 40 years before Ginsburg sat on the Supreme Court, what cases did she argue and what success did she have in spite of obstacles she faced?

9. What case did Ginsburg and Marty collaborate on?

10. When and why did Ginsburg think about what would make her mother happy and then strive to make her mother happy?

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