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WorksheetsIda B. Wells Quiz
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
What was significant about her candidacy for the Illinois legislature?
She was the first woman to run for office.
She was one of the first black women in the nation to run for public office.
She was the youngest candidate.
She was the first to win the election.
What job did Ida B. Wells take while waiting to take the teaching examination in Memphis?
Carpenter
Cook
Teacher in Woodstock
Newspaper editor
What significant event did Ida B. Wells' family witness during the Civil War?
The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
The surrender of Confederate Mississippi
The Battle of Gettysburg
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
How old was she when she died?
Sixty-seven
Sixty-eight
Sixty-nine
Seventy
What was the outcome of Ida B. Wells' lawsuit against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad?
She won and kept the victory
She lost the case
She won but the victory was reversed
The case was dismissed
What epidemic caused the death of Ida B. Wells' parents and brother?
Yellow Fever
Cholera
Smallpox
Influenza
What was the occupation of Ida B. Wells' father, James Wells?
Cook
Carpenter
Teacher
Lawyer
How many emancipated African Americans in Mississippi had to look for jobs after the Civil War?
100,000
250,000
450,000
600,000
What organization did Ida B. Wells help form in 1909?
NAACP
UNCF
ACLU
CORE
In what year did she die?
1930
1931
1932
1933
What was the focus of the article that led to Ida B. Wells' dismissal from the Memphis school system?
Educational inequities
Lynching
Women's rights
Unequal funding of Black schools
What significant event happened to Ida B. Wells on a train trip from Memphis to Woodstock?
She was awarded a medal
She was forcibly removed from the train
She met her future husband
She wrote her first article
Where was Ida B. Wells born?
Memphis, Tennessee
Holly Springs, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi
Nashville, Tennessee
What college did Ida B. Wells attend?
Rust College
Harvard University
Yale University
Spelman College
Who did Ida B. Wells marry in 1895?
Frederick Douglass
Ferdinand Lee Barnett
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
What newspaper did Ida B. Wells become part owner of in Memphis?
The Memphis Times
Free Speech and Headlight
The Memphis Gazette
The Daily News
At what age did she run for the Illinois legislature?
Sixty-five
Sixty-eight
Seventy
Sixty-nine
