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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the University of Minnesota Law School, Ginsburg says you learn when?
(a) While you live.
(b) You are listening.
(c) From mentors.
(d) You are old.

3. 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.

4. What happens if we do not protect the people we do not like, according to Ginsburg?
(a) We are going to lose protections for ourselves.
(b) We will encounter a great deal of rioting.
(c) We are going to encourage them to find another place to live.
(d) We are going to have a much smaller US population.

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

6. To what type of teacher does Ginsburg compare herself back in the 1970s?
(a) A math teacher.
(b) A political science teacher.
(c) An art teacher.
(d) A kindergarten teacher.

7. What does Ginsburg think of the expression, "women's rights"?
(a) It is completely inaccurate.
(b) It is outdated.
(c) It is a bit problematic.
(d) It describes the issue perfectly.

8. What is a response that Ginsburg gives regarding what the labels liberal and conservative mean?
(a) There is no thing as liberal or conservative.
(b) I am neither liberal nor conservative.
(c) It depends on whose ox is being gored.
(d) I wish these labels do not exist.

9. What important role does Ginsburg think the press has played regarding the government?
(a) Watchdog.
(b) Guide for telling the truth.
(c) Minions.
(d) Creator of false news.

10. Ginsburg says her son, James, was described as what by his teachers?
(a) Slow.
(b) Shy.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Hyperactive.

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

12. Ginsburg says we remember Hitler's Europe, his Holocaust Kingdom, in what way and why?
(a) In sorrow, because it was not lawless.
(b) In fear, because she sees the US following the same course.
(c) In awe, because he was so skilled a leader, albeit terrible.
(d) In anger, because it never should have happened.

13. Who is NOT a women's rights activist Ginsburg mentions?
(a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(b) Sara Grimke.
(c) Zelda Fitzgerald.
(d) Susan B. Anthony.

14. When was the last time Ginsburg cooked?
(a) 1990.
(b) Yesterday.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1980.

15. Who does Ginsburg say has control over the lives of hardworking, taxpaying illegal immigrants?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) Congress.
(c) Local businesses.
(d) Local law officials.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a talk in 1978, Ginsburg says that Civil Rights laws do not prohibit discrimination on what basis?

2. The court today arms the police with a way to routinely dishonor what amendment, regarding warrants?

3. Unlike Ginsburg’s ancestors in their exodus from Egypt, we must rely on what?

4. How many generations of women in Ginsburg’s family have attended Harvard Law School?

5. How long did Ginsburg research cases and articles regarding gender in the law, when preparing a college course?

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