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Social Studies 9 Week Assessment Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who would the newspaper headline above be about?

a)

Maria Mitchell

b)

James Lovell

c)

Hector P. Garcia

d)

Louis Pasteur

2.

Which of these people overcame the challenges of blindness and deafness to graduate from college and write books?

a)

Ruby Bridges

b)

Helen Keller

c)

Clara Barton

d)

Juliette Gordon Low

3.

Who was the doctor that developed a vaccine for polio?

a)

Jonas Salk

b)

Cyrus McCormick

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

Maria Mitchell

4.

Read the information in the picture. How are these people improving the community?

a)

By helping to feed homeless children

b)

By providing library books to the youth in the community

c)

By building new schools in the community

d)

By providing places for children to exercise

5.

First responders are considered heroes in the local communities they serve because they —

a)

By leading protests

b)

By fighting for equal rights

c)

By creating new inventions

d)

By creating safer communities

6.

Who am I?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Pierre-Charles L’Enfant

c)

Juan de Oñate

d)

George Washington

7.

Which American hero is described by the information in the box?

a)

James Lovell

b)

B Tomie dePaola

c)

Hector P. Garcia

d)

Sam Houston

8.

Which of these people escaped slavery and then helped other enslaved people to freedom?

a)

Carmen Lomas Garza

b)

Todd Beamer

c)

Helen Keller

d)

Harriet Tubman

9.

Who is the person described in the box?

a)

Clara Barton

b)

Ruby Bridges

c)

Juliette Gordon Low

d)

Martha Washington

10.

The adult in the picture is helping the community by —

a)

being friendly

b)

making good grades

c)

protecting others

d)

building a road

11.

Helen Keller and Ruby Bridges influenced their communities. How did they influence the community?

a)

By leading protests

b)

By fighting for equal rights

c)

By creating new inventions

d)

By creating safer communities

12.

Louis Pasteur invented the process of pasteurization. During pasteurization liquids are heated so that harmful bacteria is killed. Why is pasteurization an important invention?

a)

It makes food safer to eat.

b)

It stops the spread of diseases.

c)

It prevents polio from spreading.

d)

It makes food taste better.

13.
a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Hellen Keller

14.

Which heroic deeds are the Four Chaplains most remembered for doing?

a)

Fought for Civil Rights

b)

Rescuing people trapped by fires

c)

Giving away their lifejackets to save others

d)

Fighting in a war to protect the freedoms of others

15.

Towns are usually planned by a city planner. City planners use surveying to find the right place for constructing buildings. Which of these men worked to survey the land in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States?

a)

Bill Gates

b)

Benjamin Banneker

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Pierre L’Enfant