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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What it one main reason for why it took lawmen so long to accept women into the field?
(a) Fear.
(b) Tradition.
(c) T enough room for women in law schools.
(d) Overloaded schedules.

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

3. Does Ginsburg believe it is ideology that keeps lawyers from helping to repair tears in their communities, nation, and world?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Yes, in general.
(c) No, not in general.
(d) Often.

4. According to Ginsburg, to make sure that the judges are not infusing their own beliefs and ideas into the constitutional text, how should the law be read?
(a) Loosely.
(b) Figuratively.
(c) In a way that supports current public opinion.
(d) Literally.

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

6. The Supreme Court, unlike the political branches of government, is what kind of institution?
(a) A totally proactive institution.
(b) A totally reactive institution.
(c) A totally inactive institution.
(d) A totally refractive institution.

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

8. Ginsburg only became engaged with the women’s rights movement at what time?
(a) When she became a member of the Supreme Court.
(b) When she was a student at Columbia.
(c) When she was a professor.
(d) When she lost her first civil rights case.

9. 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?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1917.

10. Why did Ginsburg live in Fort Sill, Oklahoma for a short time?
(a) Martin was stationed there during the Korean War.
(b) She has close family there.
(c) This is where she received her first law clerk position.
(d) She has always loved the state of Oklahoma.

11. Women were not on the bench in numbers, on the federal bench, until what president?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Calvin Coolidge.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

12. What are the hardest cases for Ginsdburg?
(a) The cases involving minorities or women.
(b) Death penalty cases.
(c) The intricate cases.
(d) The cases involving children.

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

14. What consequence can not be administered with an even hand?
(a) The death penalty.
(b) Community service.
(c) Life in prison.
(d) Jail sentences.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A widely used property law casebook, in an edition published in 1968, offered what bit of comic relief?

2. What is an activist judge, according to Ginsburg?

3. Women have played important roles regarding law, according to what sources?

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?

5. Some studies suggest that which profession is one of the most unhappy and unhealthy on the face of the earth?

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