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Women who have made history

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 2hrs 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did Vera Rubin discover?

a)

Why galaxies stay together

b)

why galaxies move fast

c)

why planets move counter clockwise

d)

why gravity is invisible

2.

Who was one of the firts women to defend equality in education (that is, both men and women can study)?

a)

Hipatia

b)

Mary Wollstonecraft

c)

Olympe de Gouges

d)

Malala Yousafzai

3.

Which is Jane Goodall's area of expertise?

a)

Geology

b)

Knowing why Chimpanzees are so funny

c)

Primatology

d)

The origin of the Universe

4.

Which was Barbara Mcklintock's original name?

a)

Eleanor

b)

Mary

c)

Barbara

d)

Judith

5.

Inge Lehmann proved one of Jules Verne's stories wrong. Which one was it?

a)

Journey to the Center of the Earth

b)

From the Earth to the Moon

c)

Around the World in Eighty Days

d)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Around the Seas

6.

Which of the following was one of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's main discoveries?

a)

Chemistry is boring

b)

X-rays

c)

The structure of Vitamin B12

d)

The capital city of Sudan

7.

Which of the following WAS NOT one of Hypatia of Alexandria's occupations?

a)

Astronomer

b)

Phylosopher

c)

Priestess

d)

Mathematician

8.

Which was the main contribution to society of Maria Montessori?

a)

How to cure malaria disease.

b)

How to improve women’s role in medicine.

c)

Her own pedagogical learning method.

9.

Thanks to her, we have the first written music.

a)

Hildegarda de Bingen

b)

Golda Meir

c)

Margaret Thatcher

d)

Hedy Lamarr

10.

She wrote the first book in Catalan from a feminist point of view.

a)

Princesa Carmesina

b)

Plaerdemavida

c)

Ermessenda de Carcassona

d)

Isabel de villena

11.

Who was the first woman to go into space?

a)

Inge Lehman

b)

Valentina Tereixkova

c)

Virginia Wolf

12.

Jane Goodall is a great protector of wildlife. Her studies become vital to understand human behavior

a)

True

b)

False

13.

This woman was born the same year that Teresa of Calcuta died

a)

Caterina II de Rússia

b)

Coco Chanel

c)

Margaret Tatcher

d)

Malala Yousafsai