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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the two things that Ginsburg’s mother said she should be?
(a) Kind and merciful.
(b) A lady and independent.
(c) Smart and witty.
(d) Energetic and demanding.

3. What does Ginsburg say in a speech at Georgetown University to think of yourself as, so as to not react in anger?
(a) A judge.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A mother.
(d) A police officer.

4. What name was Ginsburg given that resembles a famous rapper’s name?
(a) Arbi G.
(b) Lil RBG.
(c) Notorious RBG.
(d) Snoop Rooth.

5. Why were women employees at one point not allowed health insurance coverage for their families?
(a) They were not trusted with such responsibility.
(b) There was no such thing as health insurance for families.
(c) They did not earn enough to cover family insurance.
(d) They were not considered the earner who counts.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Ginsburg says her son, James, was described as what by his teachers?

4. What really had to go after World War II, according to Ginsburg?

5. How does Ginsburg judge the past?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two ways in which Ginsburg was discriminated against as an employee at Rutgers?

2. What does Ginsburg say about her suffering from two bouts of cancer?

3. In what case does Ginsberg believe that anti-abortion laws are unconstitutional?

4. How does Ginsburg address the concern that many will be overpaying for health insurance, when it comes to the Affordable Care Act?

5. What is meant when Ginsburg quotes someone as saying the symbol of the U.S. is not the bald eagle but the pendulum?

6. Why does Ginsburg believe Apartheid in America really needed to go after World War II?

7. What does Ginsburg say about someone having it all in life?

8. What does Ginsburg think about gerrymandering?

9. Why does Ginsburg believe it is important for the courts to stay out of the business of putting one religion and its beliefs up against another?

10. Why is the number two Ginsburg’s lucky number?

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