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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. According to Ginsburg, what did the Founding Fathers think about human rights?
(a) Human rights were only for the educated.
(b) Human rights were natural rights.
(c) Human rights were only for while males.
(d) Human rights were subjective.

2. What is the reason that Ginsburg gives for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?
(a) They do not pay much attention to the judiciary branch.
(b) Only the truth mattered to the press.
(c) The justices rarely agree.
(d) Agreement is kind of boring.

3. According to Ginsburg’s husband, who was a law school teacher, whose hand would shout up first to answer a question?
(a) A male’s.
(b) An older student’s.
(c) A female’s.
(d) A smart student’s.

4. When Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School, she was one of how many women in a class of 500 students?
(a) 100.
(b) 2.
(c) 50.
(d) 9.

5. From where does the Supreme Court’s power come?
(a) Its military might and wealth.
(b) Its intelligence and education.
(c) The Congress and Senate.
(d) Its reason and judgment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What it one main reason for why it took lawmen so long to accept women into the field?

2. What does Ginsburg think about Criticism of the courts, and similarly criticism of other branches of government?

3. Most men of the bench and bar had what the French call what, regarding the unyielding conviction that women and lawyering do not mix?

4. Today, about what percent of the nation’s law students are women?

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

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