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The Gilded Age

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What colleges allowed women to attend and receive an education? 🏫

a)

Bryn Mawr & Radcliffe

b)

Radcliffe & Mount Holyoke.

c)

Bryn Mawr & Mount Holyoke.

d)

Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, & Mount Holyoke.

2.

After the gilded age, which group of women were allowed to work in new cities?

a)

single, middle-class

b)

married, middle-class

c)

single & married, middle-class

d)

NONE

3.

What were the 4 virtues?

a)

Purity, Piety, Submissiveness & Domesticity

b)

Purity, Piety, Masculinity & Domesticity

c)

Honesty, Purity, Masculinity & Domesticity

d)

Purity, Piety, Submissiveness & Honesty

4.

Which was the most feminine virtue?

a)

Purity

b)

Piety

c)

Submissiveness

d)

Domesticity

5.

What percentage of women who received a doctoral degree between 1877-1924 reminded single?

a)

70%

b)

73%

c)

74%

d)

75%

6.

What were the major fields in which women were involved in the mid-gilded age?

a)

Business and Administration

b)

Law and Medicine

c)

Engineering and Teaching

d)

Nursing and Teaching

7.

What was the women's role? (Hint: stereotypes)

(a)  

8.

Which class of women were given more BUT low-paid jobs? 👩

a)

Immigrant Women

b)

High Class Married Women

c)

Middle Class Married Women

d)

Single, Middle Class Women

9.

Why were women given the right to vote after the gilded age had passed?


(a)  
a)

Because many suffrage movements took place

b)

Because of how much violence was involved

c)

Just because

d)

Because of their hard work

10.

"There is no limit to what we, (a)   " - Michelle Obama