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African American History Month

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 1hrs 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was an olympic track and field athlete who performed in the 1936 olympics in Berlin, Germany?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Jesse Owens

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Marian Anderson

2.

Frederick Douglass was...

a)

an inventor of hair products for African American women,

b)

A great musician who played music in the 1840's.

c)

an escaped slave who worked hard to end slavery for all. He also was a great writer.

d)

A Civil War captain who led troops against the North.

3.

This man became a very important botanist who did a lot of work with peanut plants...

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Jackie Robinson

c)

Garrett Morgan

d)

Benjamin Banneker

4.

He was the first African American athlete to play Major League Baseball.

a)

Miss Trexler

b)

Singapore

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Jackie Robinson

5.

Marion Anderson was....

a)

a civil rights activist

b)

a famous opera singer

c)

a brilliant eye doctor

d)

the first African American to graduate college

6.

This person was the first African American child to attend an all-white public school...

a)

Mae Jemison

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Sojourner Truth

7.

Mae Jemison is known because...

a)

she was the first African American female astronaut.

b)

she was a famous author.

c)

she was the first African American to sing at the White House

d)

she was a brilliant doctor

8.

Garrett Morgan was an important....

a)

doctor

b)

inventor

c)

soldier

d)

scientist

9.

Who worked to calculate the location of stars and planets for almanacs?

a)

Benjamin Banneker

b)

Ruby Bridges

c)

Mae Jemison

d)

Malcolm X

10.

Who was known for creating big-band jazz music?

a)

Marion Anderson

b)

Maya Angelou

c)

Dr. Patricia Bath

d)

Duke Ellington

11.

Sojourner Truth worked to...

a)

create a new treatment for cataracts

b)

end slavery and improve women's rights

c)

discover mathematical equations

d)

invent bubble gum

12.

Who was a famous poet and writer?

a)

Maya Angelou

b)

Dr. Patricia Bath

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Malcolm X

13.

Who is known as the Conductor of the Underground Railroad?

a)

Maya Angelou

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Duke Ellington

14.

Malcolm X was....

a)

a musician who created the jazz movement.

b)

an incredible astronaut who traveled to Jupiter.

c)

the doctor who invented a cure for cancer.

d)

a leader who believed in using any means necessary to fight for civil rights.

15.

Why is Dr. Patricia Bath important to our history?

a)

She developed a new medicine for diabetes.

b)

She traveled to the moon.

c)

She discovered a treatment for cataracts.

d)

She was an incredible teacher.