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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 (American Rights and Values and Equal Justice Under the Law).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Maintaining what is always difficult in times of terror, according to Ginsburg?
(a) Truth and unity.
(b) Love and honor.
(c) Sanity and clarity.
(d) Liberty and freedom.

2. Can the job of giving men and women equal rights be done without an equal rights amendment?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes, most definitely.
(c) Yes, in theory.
(d) No.

3. How does Ginsburg feel about women arguing every kind of case that comes before the court?
(a) It gives her great pleasure.
(b) It frustrates her.
(c) It worries her.
(d) It makes her laugh.

4. A justice contemplating publication of a separate writing, should always ask herself what question?
(a) Is this dissent or concurrence really necessary?
(b) Is this Constitutional?
(c) Will others take me seriously?
(d) Who is my audience?

5. What does Ginsburg believe was the founding fathers’ true purpose?
(a) To create and perpetuate the belief that men are stronger and more capable than women.
(b) To continue the belief that white men reign supreme.
(c) To create and maintain a society where all citizens have equal stature before the law.
(d) To conquer the entire Western Hemisphere.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name Ginsburg was given at birth?

3. Supreme Court judges are infallible only because of what reason?

4. What does Ginsburg consider herself, regarding her interpretation of the Constitution?

5. In Ginsburg’s growing up years, to what could a girl aspire, if she wanted to have a career?

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