Women in History Quiz

Who became the first American woman to travel to space in 1983?

• Sally Ride

• Mae Jemison

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Eileen Collins

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Who is the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees from Britain?

• Dian Fossey

• Birutė Galdikas

• Jane Goodall

• Rachel Carson

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Which African American woman was a Civil Rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus?

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

• Angela Davis

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Who was the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court?

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Sandra Day O'Connor

• Sonia Sotomayor

• Elena Kagan

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Which woman helped slaves escape to freedom by leading them on the Underground Railroad?

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

• Ida B. Wells

• Mary McLeod Bethune

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Which Native American woman helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition of the west?

• Pocahontas

• Sacagawea

• Wilma Mankiller

• Lozen

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Who was the founder of Bethune-Cookman College in Florida and an African American woman?

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Sojourner Truth

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Who was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic?

• Bessie Coleman

• Amelia Earhart

• Harriet Quimby

• Jacqueline Cochran

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Who became the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree and become a physician?

• Susan La Flesche Picotte

• Maria Tallchief

• Wilma Mankiller

• Elouise Cobell

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Who became the first woman millionaire for her creation of hair care products for African American women?

• Oprah Winfrey

• Madam C.J. Walker

• Rosa Parks

• Maya Angelou

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