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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Law (The Supreme Court and Women and the Law).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what did President Bill Clinton nominate Ginsburg?
(a) District Attorney.
(b) The Court of Appeals.
(c) Federal Court.
(d) The Supreme Court.

2. What does Ginsburg consider herself, regarding her interpretation of the Constitution?
(a) An originalist.
(b) A structuralist.
(c) A non-originalist.
(d) A textualist.

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

4. Ginsburg says that she and other female law students felt that if they were called on in class, they had to get it right, because of what reason?
(a) If they did not, they would be failing.
(b) If they did not, they would be a permanent disappointment to their families.
(c) If they did not, they would be kicked out of school.
(d) If they did not, the male students would laugh in their faces.

5. Where and when was Ginsburg born?
(a) Brooklyn in 1933.
(b) Boston in 1933.
(c) Queens in 1943.
(d) Chicago in 1923.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would relieve the Court’s uneasiness in the gray zone between interpretation and amendment of the Constitution?

2. What did Ginsburg’s husband admire most about her?

3. Until what year, was there the excuse that citizens who had no vote, no voice in making laws, had no business administering, enforcing, or interpreting them?

4. Who did the Founding Father believe bestowed human rights?

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

(see the answer key)

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