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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. In a talk in 1978, Ginsburg says that Civil Rights laws do not prohibit discrimination on what basis?
(a) Religion.
(b) Sex.
(c) National origin.
(d) Race.

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

3. What does Ginsburg think about inherent differences between men and women?
(a) They should be celebrated.
(b) They should be ignored.
(c) They are embarrassing.
(d) They do not exist.

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

5. What does Ginsburg think about the schools that openly take race into consideration when looking at student applications?
(a) They are preferable to those that conceal it.
(b) They are worse than the schools who secretly take race into consideration.
(c) They are apprehensible.
(d) They should lose any and all public funding.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1837, Sara Grimke asked men to take their feet from what?

2. 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?

3. What is NOT a way that laws once governed women in the workplace, according to Ginsburg's quotes?

4. What is NOT a reason for why Ginsburg was not given equal pay, when she was hired at Rutgers in 1963?

5. Ginsburg says the idea in the 1950s and 1960s regarding why a woman's voice could be tuned out was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Ginsburg, why td women fail at the in-person interview stage in a hitting situation more often than men?

2. What does Ginsburg think about institutions of higher learning who clearly state that they take race into consideration when looking at applicants?

3. What is Ginsburg’s argument for why heterosexual married couples should not worry about the benefits homosexual married couples would legally receive?

4. Who does Ginsburg say are the most impoverished around the world? Why?

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

6. How was pregnancy discrimination the same as gender discrimination?

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

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

9. What does Ginsburg say about Judge Learned Hand?

10. Why does Ginsburg believe that contraceptives must be covered in health insurance plans?

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