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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ginsburg feel when she saw the sign at the bed and breakfast saying that no dogs or Jews were allowed?
(a) She was confused, as she is not Jewish.
(b) She was worried, because she thought the family was possibly part of the KKK.
(c) She was upset, because she was proud of being born and bred in the USA.
(d) She was sad, because she really wanted to stay at that particular bed and breakfast.

2. What does Ginsburg say makes life beautiful, in the Washingtonian?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Children.
(c) Art.
(d) Law.

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

4. How does Ginsburg describe the American Dream?
(a) A place where people of all kinds appreciate differences and pull together for the long haul.
(b) A place where all people have easy lives.
(c) Every American owning their own home and car.
(d) A chance to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

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

6. How does Ginsburg describe Gunther’s comment to Judge Palmieri, when he says that, if Ginsburg cannot cut it, another man from her class would take over for her?
(a) The complaint.
(b) The reward.
(c) The carrot.
(d) The stick.

7. Why should the courts stay out of the business of evaluating the merits of religious groups?
(a) They may be accused of favoring one religion over another.
(b) They may ban all religions.
(c) They know nothing about religion.
(d) They may allow less religious freedoms.

8. How long did Ginsburg research cases and articles regarding gender in the law, when preparing a college course?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 1 month.

9. Who is bound to be sympathetic to others who encounter discrimination?
(a) The government.
(b) People who have known discrimination.
(c) Those who are well-traveled.
(d) The poor.

10. What allowed symphony orchestras to audition without knowing the person's gender?
(a) Those auditioning sent in recordings to be judged.
(b) The judges closed their eyes.
(c) A curtain between the people auditioning and the judges.
(d) The women all dressed as men.

11. What does Ginsburg say will allow women to advance in the military?
(a) The separation of men and women in training and combat.
(b) The elimination of sex as an assignment determinant.
(c) Better physical training for women.
(d) More military schools that allow women.

12. How many generations of women in Ginsburg’s family have attended Harvard Law School?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

13. Unlike Ginsburg’s ancestors in their exodus from Egypt, we must rely on what?
(a) The intelligence of our leaders.
(b) God to care for us.
(c) The president, instead of Moses.
(d) Measures of our own creation.

14. What is NOT a way that laws once governed women in the workplace, according to Ginsburg's quotes?
(a) Laws prescribed the time of day women were allowed to work.
(b) Laws barred women from dangerous or inappropriate occupations.
(c) Laws prescribed the maximum number of a woman could work.
(d) Laws regarding required education for women.

15. How does Ginsburg judge the past?
(a) Very harshly.
(b) Somewhat harshly.
(c) She does not judge them at all.
(d) Not harshly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ginsburg’s professor at Cornell who changed the way she read and wrote?

2. What plan does Ginsburg say may hasten the closing of the divide between various races in the U.S.?

3. Where did Ginsburg go in the summers of '62 and '63 that changed her mind regarding the women's rights movement?

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

5. What should not enter into the way that a person is treated, according to Ginsburg?

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