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Women's History Month

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. Who was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?

a)

Abigail Adams

b)

Hillary Clinton

c)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

d)

Sandra Day O'Connor

e)

Phyllis Schlafly

2.

2. The first woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice began her term in what year?

a)

1975

b)

1981

c)

1983

d)

1987

e)

1992

3.

3. What was the first coeducational college in the United States?

a)

Oberlin Collegiate Institute

b)

Andover Newton College

c)

Radcliffe College

d)

University of Tennessee

e)

College of William and Mary

4.

4. Who was the daughter of the infamous Anne Boleyn?

a)

Anne Askew

b)

Queen Elizabeth I

c)

Queen Mary I

d)

Jane Seymour

e)

Anne of Cleves

5.

5. Who was Emily Dickinson's famous contact who helped edit her poetry?

a)

Margaret Brent

b)

Jennie Churchill

c)

T. W. Higginson

d)

Henry David Thoreau

e)

Mary Wollstonecraft

6.

6. Eleanor Roosevelt was orphaned at what age?

a)

4

b)

10

c)

14

d)

16

7.

7. Who was the first modern woman to graduate from medical school?

a)

Clara Barton

b)

Florence Nightingale

c)

Elizabeth Blackwell

d)

Mary Ewing Outerbridge

8.

8. In what year did Switzerland adopt woman suffrage?

a)

1893

b)

1910

c)

1920

d)

1939

e)

1971

9.

9. Who was the first African American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Pearl Buck

c)

Selma Lagerlöf

d)

Toni Morrison

e)

Sigrid Undset

10.

Who was not at the Woman's Rights Convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York?

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Lucretia Mott

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

e)

Martha Coffin Wright

11.

11. Who was member of Harlem Renaissance, an anthropologist, and author of many books, including “Their Eyes Were Watching God”?

a)

Lorainne Hansberry

b)

Zora Neale Hurston

c)

Claude McKay

d)

Nella Larsen