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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. A widely used property law casebook, in an edition published in 1968, offered what bit of comic relief?
(a) “Property, like dogs, must be groomed.”
(b) “Homes, like wealth, should only be for the privileged.”
(c) “Land, like Native Americans, must be purchased.”
(d) “Land, like woman, was meant to be possessed.”

2. To what is a judge bound regarding court cases?
(a) Public opinion.
(b) The beliefs of the other branches of the government.
(c) To decide each case fairly, in accord with the relevant facts and the applicable law.
(d) To the laws as they were created and interpreted over 200 years ago.

3. When does Ginsburg say it is appropriate for the Supreme Court to step in?
(a) When good judges are of different minds on what is the right answer.
(b) When a defendant requests it.
(c) When no other suitable judges are available.
(d) As soon as a case goes to trial.

4. What does Ginsburg say is a two-edged sword?
(a) Every gender discrimination.
(b) Human sexuality.
(c) Women's rights.
(d) The Civil Rights Movement.

5. What does Ginsburg see as the principal mission of the Supreme Court?
(a) To preside over the lower judges.
(b) To keep the law of the United States more or less uniform.
(c) To interpret the Constitution the exact same way the Founding Fathers did.
(d) To provide multiple interpretations of the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maintaining what is always difficult in times of terror, according to Ginsburg?

2. Although security is important, what else does Ginsburg say must be preserved, in times of terror?

3. Why did Ginsburg endure discrimination?

4. The few women who braved law school in the 1950s and 1960s, it was generally supposed, presented what, regarding men?

5. According to Ginsburg’s husband, who was a law school teacher, whose hand would shout up first to answer a question?

(see the answer key)

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