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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Civil Liberties: Free to Be You and Me (The History of the Women's Rights Movement, The Rights of Women, and Reproductive Rights).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ginsburg, if one is to be a lawyer and just practice one's profession, one is very much like what other field?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Congress.
(c) A judge.
(d) A plumber.

2. What is Ginsburg craft, according to her?
(a) Working with and for the law.
(b) Working to change the interpretation of the Constitution.
(c) Working against those with opposing views.
(d) Working with and for the other branches of the government.

3. What does Ginsburg think about Criticism of the courts, and similarly criticism of other branches of government?
(a) It should not be resented.
(b) It should be ignored.
(c) It should be silenced.
(d) It should not take place.

4. To what type of teacher does Ginsburg compare herself back in the 1970s?
(a) A political science teacher.
(b) A math teacher.
(c) An art teacher.
(d) A kindergarten teacher.

5. What does Ginsburg say to not do when one is slighted?
(a) React in anger.
(b) Come up with a witty response.
(c) Take it as an opportunity to share knowledge.
(d) See it as a teachable moment.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ginsburg, to make sure that the judges are not infusing their own beliefs and ideas into the constitutional text, how should the law be read?

2. Why did Ginsburg's client, Stephen Wisenfeld, not apply for social security benefits as caretaker of a deceased wage earner's child?

3. According to Ginsburg, how did Judges and legislators of the 1960s and part of the 1970s view differential treatment of men and women?

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

5. A widely used property law casebook, in an edition published in 1968, offered what bit of comic relief?

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