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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 were the years that Ginsburg describes as hopeless, in regard to the women's rights movement?

2. When Ginsburg was on the Law Review at Harvard, why was she not allowed into Lamont Library?

3. What important role does Ginsburg think the press has played regarding the government?

4. What did Ginsburg and O’Connor have in common, regarding their health?

5. At the University of Minnesota Law School, Ginsburg says you learn when?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ginsburg think about gerrymandering?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Ginsburg study in various bathrooms while a student at Cornell?

8. What were the three fronts in which work progressed for Ginsburg and her colleagues at the ACLU and law seminars?

9. What did the dean of Harvard Law School do to the women in the first-year class?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ginsburg strongly believes that the Courts would benefit from adopting the Equal Rights Amendment. What is the Equal Rights Amendment, based on what has been said in this book? How would the Courts benefit? Why might someone oppose the inclusion of the Equal Rights Amendment?

Essay Topic 2

When Ginsburg was at Cornell, she did much of her studying in the bathroom. Why was this? What did this reflect about society at the time? How has society changed? Has it, in any way, stayed liked this? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Ginsburg says, “If we don’t protect the people we don’t like, we’re going to lose protections for ourselves” (77). To what amendment is she referring? What does she mean by this? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?

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