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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. What would relieve the Court’s uneasiness in the gray zone between interpretation and amendment of the Constitution?
(a) The adoption of the Bill of Rights.
(b) The exclusion of the equal rights amendment.
(c) The exclusion of the Bill of Rights.
(d) The adoption of the equal rights amendment.

2. Any human rights guarantee that is phrased in grand, general terms is vulnerable to what campaign?
(a) A scare campaign.
(b) A rebranding campaign.
(c) A contest marketing campaign.
(d) A canvassing campaign.

3. In Ginsburg’s growing up years, to what could a girl aspire, if she wanted to have a career?
(a) Nursing.
(b) Lawyering.
(c) Mothering.
(d) Teaching.

4. Most men of the bench and bar had what the French call what, regarding the unyielding conviction that women and lawyering do not mix?
(a) Nationalité superbe.
(b) Idée forte.
(c) La tradition.
(d) Idée fixe.

5. Some studies suggest that which profession is one of the most unhappy and unhealthy on the face of the earth?
(a) Government.
(b) Legal.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Finance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ginsburg became the first woman to join what prestigious group at Harvard?

2. The Supreme Court, unlike the political branches of government, is what kind of institution?

3. What type of argument is very important, because it is the first time all nine justices are thinking about issues together?

4. What is far more important than the particular individuals who compose the Court’s bench at any given time?

5. What is the problem with the wording, "Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex”?

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