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8th Grade CCCS Black History Month Den Challenge

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Mae Jemison best known for?

a)

Mae Jemison was an engineer.

b)

Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space

c)

Mae Jemison was on Star Trek.

d)

Mae Jemison got to meet Albert Einstein.

2.

What was Mae Jemison inspired by?

a)

McDonalds

b)

Burger King

c)

Star Trek

d)

Her Family

3.

What role did Mae Jemison have in science?

a)

Medical Engineering

b)

Scientific practitioner

c)

Engineering

d)

All of the above

4.

What was Mae Jemison's job in space?

a)

She flew the rocket and monitored the equipment.

b)

She grew plants in zero gravity.

c)

She conducted all of the science-related experiments.

d)

She translated for the other astronauts on the International Space Station.

5.

What was Langston's 1st major published poem?

a)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

b)

The Negro Speaks of Fear

c)

The Negro Speaks of Days

d)

The Negro Speaks of Roads

6.
A period in the 1920's when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
a)
Renaissance
b)
discrimination
c)
Harlem Renaissance
d)
point of view
7.

Which sentence best summarizes the legacy of Langston Hughes?

a)

Langston Hughes was a wonderful writer.

b)

One of the most famous poets of the Harlem Renaissance was Langston Hughes.

c)

Langston Hughes was a popular African-American writer and main figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

d)

Langston Hughes had many difficulties throughout his life, but prevailed to become a famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance.

8.
In the 1960s, black and white people couldn’t ride together on the bus, drink from the same fountains or go to the same schools. What was this separation called?
a)
compassion
b)
integration
c)
segregation
d)
determination
9.
Ruby Bridges was the first black child to ________.
a)
integrate an all-white elementary school by herself
b)
visit the Supreme Court
c)
sit with white children on a bus
d)
skip first grade
10.
Ruby’s teacher Mrs. Henry ________.
a)
refused to teach Ruby at school
b)
stood with the mob and yelled mean things at Ruby
c)
taught Ruby every subject by herself for months
d)
only taught Ruby math
11.
Bessie Coleman was the first African American women to do what?
a)
Get an international pilot's license
b)
Be in an airplane
c)
Get an ID card
d)
Cut hair in a barber shop
12.
Bessie wanted to become a pilot, but she couldn't while in the United States. Why?
a)
She didn't have enough money
b)
There weren't any pilot schools
c)
She was a black woman
d)
Her family didn't want her to be a pilot
13.
In what year did Bessie earn her international pilot's license?
a)
1999
b)
1821
c)
1921
d)
1899
14.

In which branch of government did Thurgood Marshall serve?

a)

executive

b)

judicial

c)

legislative

d)

none of them

15.
Thurgood Marshall became _______.
a)
a president of the United States.
b)
a principal in a school who fought racism.
c)
the first African American on the Supreme Court.
d)
one of the authors of the constitution.
16.

Where was Thurgood Marshall born?

a)

Mayesville, South Carolina

b)

Boston, Massachusetts

c)

Rochester, New York

d)

Baltimore, Maryland

17.
Marshall took the case "Brown vs. the Board of Education" to the Supreme Court and won. What were the results of this success?
a)
It gave Linda Brown the freedom to attend the school close to her home.
b)
It showed that "separate but equal" was not truly equal.
c)
It ended all segregation in public schools.
d)
All answers are correct.
18.

Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed

a)

white people are superior

b)

the telephone is the best invention

c)

Education for African-Americans is important

d)

Equal rights for all

19.

WEB DuBois

a)

founded the NAACP

b)

worked in a salt mine at age 9

c)

was born in Tennessee

d)

taught job skills to African-Americans

20.

African-American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the second documented, successful pericardium surgery in the United States to repair a wound

a)

Daniel Hale Williams

b)

Edward Bouchet

c)

Ernest Everett Just

d)

Percy Julian

e)

Charles H. Turner

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