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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A great jurist once said the way to fight false facts is what?
(a) By making up even greater false facts.
(b) By banning all news.
(c) By true facts.
(d) By ignoring those facts we do not like.

2. Why did Ginsburg endure discrimination?
(a) She was not interested in changing the status quo.
(b) She thought it came with the territory.
(c) She was too exhausted to do anything else.
(d) She was afraid of what her male colleagues would think if she complained.

3. What is the advice Ginsburg says her mother-in-law gave her regarding marriage?
(a) Make your husband think he is always right.
(b) Take marriage one day at a time.
(c) It helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
(d) It helps being a good cook.

4. What should not enter into the way that a person is treated, according to Ginsburg?
(a) His or her intelligence.
(b) His or her birth status.
(c) His or her citizenship.
(d) His or her age.

5. Although security is important, what else does Ginsburg say must be preserved, in times of terror?
(a) State rights.
(b) Federal rights.
(c) Religious rights.
(d) Individual rights.

6. Who are the two people to whom Ginsburg attributes her law school success?
(a) Her in-laws.
(b) Her colleagues.
(c) Her husband and daughter.
(d) Her mother and father.

7. What is one reason Ginsburg does NOT say same-sex marriages should take place?
(a) If you love someone and want to marry that person, it should not matter whether it is the same sex or opposite.
(b) Homosexuals around the country would riot if they did not receive the same treatment as heterosexual couples.
(c) Sexual relations are not for the purpose of procreation alone, so that is not a valid reason for not allowing same-sex marriage.
(d) Homosexual marriages would not take away the benefits for those in heterosexual marriages.

8. Ginsburg describes a summer education program run by Princeton in which girls are not allowed. Why?
(a) They distract boys from their studies.
(b) They are not smart enough.
(c) They cannot attend Princeton.
(d) They do not have the facilities to accommodate girls.

9. What really had to go after World War II, according to Ginsburg?
(a) Apartheid in America.
(b) Multi-generational homes.
(c) The idea that women should be in the military.
(d) The US military.

10. What is NOT a reason for why Ginsburg was not given equal pay, when she was hired at Rutgers in 1963?
(a) The school had limited funds.
(b) She is female.
(c) She was not as qualified as her male colleagues.
(d) Her husband had a good job.

11. Who was Ginsburg’s professor at Cornell who changed the way she read and wrote?
(a) Vladimir Nabokov.
(b) Wassily Kandinsky.
(c) Wassily Beluska.
(d) Vladimir Putin.

12. How does Ginsburg say we can fight darkness and inhumanity?
(a) By joining hands with others of like mind.
(b) By using U.S. military might to fight our foes.
(c) By closing the US borders.
(d) By taking shelter in the security of our own nation.

13. What is the hardest job Ginsburg says she has ever had?
(a) Being a wife.
(b) Being a woman.
(c) Being a mother.
(d) Being a Supreme Court Justice.

14. What advice did Ginsburg’s father-in-law give her, when she said she was not sure if she could manage a young child and law school?
(a) You cannot be both a good mother and a good lawyer.
(b) You should consider an easier career.
(c) If you really want to be a lawyer, you will stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will find a way to do it.
(d) Do not complain to me, if you want advice.

15. How long does Ginsburg say she will do her job?
(a) For the rest of her life.
(b) For as long as she can do it full steam.
(c) For one more year.
(d) For as long as the other justices want her around.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is NOT a women's rights activist Ginsburg mentions?

2. Maintaining what is always difficult in times of terror, according to Ginsburg?

3. To what does Ginsburg compare the important issue of healthcare today?

4. Why did Ginsburg's client, Stephen Wisenfeld, not apply for social security benefits as caretaker of a deceased wage earner's child?

5. How did the court respond in Reed v. Reed?

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