Multiple Choice Questions

Who was the first American woman to go into space?
  • Sally Ride
  • Christa McAuliffe
  • Amelia Earhart
  • Judith Resnik
Which woman challenged the authority of the Puritan clergy and was a key figure in the development of religious freedom in the American colonies?
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Virginia Dare
  • Anne Hutchinson
  • Anne Arundell
Who was the first female writer in the American colonies to be published?
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Anne Arundell
  • Virginia Dare
  • Hester Prynne
Which wife of a Founding Father wrote a letter to her husband in 1776, urging him to “...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors”?
  • Abigail Adams
  • Elizabeth Hamilton
  • Dolley Madison
  • Martha Washington
Who is credited with making the first American flag in 1776?
  • Molly Pitcher
  • Sally Hemings
  • Abigail Adams
  • Betsy Ross
Which woman is credited with servicing a Patriot cannon during the Battle of Monmouth in 1778 during the American Revolution?
  • Deborah Sampson
  • Abigail Adams
  • Lydia Darragh
  • Molly Pitcher
Which woman was an advocate for reform in prisons and mental institutions in the 1800s?
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Sarah Grimké
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Jane Addams
Which Quaker woman published
  • Amelia Bloomer
  • Sarah Grimké
  • Lucy Stone
  • Abby Kelley
Who organized the 1848 women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York?
  • Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who wrote
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Sarah Grimké
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
Clara Barton served as a nurse during what conflict?
  • World War I
  • The Civil War
  • Crimean War
  • World War II
Which woman went on trial for attempting to vote illegally in the US presidential election of 1872?
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Alice Paul
  • Harriet Tubman
Which woman was a key figure in the American temperance movement?
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Frances Perkins
  • Jane Addams
  • Frances Willard
Which woman was an anarchist who also advocated for free love and atheism in the United States during the early 1900s?
  • Emma Goldman
  • Golda Meir
  • Jane Addams
  • Rosa Luxemburg
Which industrial disaster occurred in the early 1900s and killed more than 100 young women?
  • Three Mile Island accident
  • Great Molasses Flood
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire
  • Port Chicago disaster
In 1916, which woman opened the first birth control clinic in the United States?
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Lynette Fromme
  • Frances Perkins
  • Jane Addams
When did American women gain the right to vote?
  • 1920 with the 19th Amendment
  • 1789 with the US Constitution
  • 1919 with the 18th Amendment
  • 1791 with the Bill of Rights
“Flappers” are most closely associated with what time period?
  • 1950s
  • 1920s
  • 1940s
  • 1930s
Who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize?
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Harper Lee
  • Sara Teasdale
  • Edith Wharton
Which American woman was a prominent social and political activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931?
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • Carrie Nation
  • Jane Addams
  • Dorothea Dix
Who was the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet?
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Geraldine Ferraro
  • Martha Washington
  • Frances Perkins
Rosie the Riveter played a symbolic role for women during which event?
  • World War II
  • The Great Depression
  • Civil War
  • World War I
Which woman helped draft the
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Olympe de Gouges
Who wrote
  • Olympe de Gouges
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Betty Friedan
Who wrote
  • Celia Hunter
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Rachel Carson
  • Margaret Murie
Who wrote
  • Betty Friedan
  • bell hooks
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Kate Millett
What landmark piece of legislation prohibited employment discrimination against women?
  • The 19th Amendment
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The Equal Pay Act of 1963
  • The Equal Rights Amendment
Who was the first African American woman elected to Congress?
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Barbara Jordan
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Angela Davis
Which Supreme Court decision lifted restrictions on access to abortion services?
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Loving v. Virginia
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
Which of the following banned gender discrimination in education?
  • Equal Rights Amendment
  • Title IX
  • 19th Amendment
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
The “Battle of the Sexes” between athletes Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973 occurred in what sport?
  • Golf
  • Bowling
  • Tennis
  • Swimming
Who was the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court?
  • Sonia Sotomayor
  • Elena Kagan
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Sandra Day O’Connor
Who was the first woman to run as the vice-presidential nominee for a major political party?
  • Nancy Pelosi
  • Geraldine Ferraro
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Sarah Palin
Who was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House in Congress?
  • Elizabeth Warren
  • Barbara Boxer
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Nancy Pelosi
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