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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ginsburg believe was the founding fathers’ true purpose?
2. Ginsburg became the first woman to join what prestigious group at Harvard?
3. What is the problem with the wording, "Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex”?
4. Every modern human rights document has what statement?
5. Today, about what percent of the nation’s law students are women?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Ginsburg and the Women's Rights Project go about dismantling discrimination laws?
2. What are the hardest cases for Ginsburg and why does she believe she must still be involved in them?
3. What does Ginsburg say regarding studies on job satisfaction for those in the legal profession?
4. What concerns Ginsburg regarding feminism and feminist legal theory, in particular?
5. What reason does Ginsburg give for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?
6. Why did it take so long for Ginsburg to get involved in the women's rights movement?
7. Why does Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s husband recommend, when calling on a student in class to answer a question, to not choose the students whose hand goes up first?
8. How was Ginsburg recognized by Presidents of the United States?
9. What does Ginsburg say about the diversity of the system of justice?
10. Why does Ginsburg involve herself in death penalty cases?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ginsburg says that up until the civil rights movement, women did not feel the need to get up in arms about the prejudice against them. Why is that? How might things be different in many fields if women had said enough is enough at a much earlier time? What might that have meant for women today?
Essay Topic 2
What does Ginsburg say about the role of the judge? What people and events in her life have influenced this attitude? What does she say about the problems that can arise if a judge does not agree with her? How does she feel the appointment for life as a Supreme Court Justice aid the judges in doing their jobs as she believes they should be done?
Essay Topic 3
Ginsburg says that it is not just men who slow the progress of the women’s rights movement. Why might women keep women from getting closer to true equality? What are ways that women put each other down? Why does this happen? What could be done to change this attitude and behavior of some women?
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