TEST YOURSELF

Answer the questions below to see how well you are familiar with the achievements of great women.

1. Marie Curie, the renowned discoverer of radium, was born in:

a) France b) England c) Poland

2. Jane Addams was the founder of what settlement house?

a) Hull House b) the Henry St. Settlement c) Denison House

3. Diane Arbus is renowned for her excellence in:

a) Sculpting b) Photography c) Mathematics

4. The leader of the British suffragettes was:

a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton b) Beatrice Webb c) Emmeline Pankhurst

5. Elizabeth I of England ascended the throne in:

a) 1533 b) 1558 c) 1588

6. The woman who was called "Mother of the Russian Revolution" was:

a) Catherine the Great b) Catherine Breshkovsky c) Rosa Luxemburg

7. Babe Didrikson Zaharias was:

a) a champion athlete b) a famous novelist c) a leading Zionist

8. The leader of the "underground Railroad" that brought Southern Black slaves to freedom in the North prior to the Civil War was;

a) Harriet Beecher Stowe b) Harriet Ross Tubman c) Cicely Tyson

9. Maria Montessori, the first woman in Italy to become a medical doctor, was famous for her innovations in:

a) Biology b) Elementary education c) Business

10. The founder of home economics, who was also the first woman to attend M. I. T., was:

a) Elizabeth Blackwell b) Fanny Farmer c) Ellen Swallow Richards

11. Middlemarch is a novel by Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the pen name:

a) Charlotte Bronte b) George Elliot c) George Sand

12. Dorothy Arzner was a top:

a) Dress designer b) film directorc) advertising executive

13. The reformer known as "The Angel of the Prisons" was:

a) Joan of Arc b) Elizabeth Fry c) Dorothea Dix

14. Margaret Sanger was a noted:

a) birth control pioneer b) primitive painter c) political scientist

15. Florence Nightingale accomplished important public health reforms during:

a) American Revolution b) Crimean War c) The Napoleonic Wars

16 The Irish revolutionary, Constance Gore-Booth Markiewicz, was also:

a) the first woman cabinet member in Europe

b) Winner of the Nobel Prize for Poetry

c) the first Irish aviator

17. Margaret Mead was:

a) a psychoanalyst b) an anthropologist c) writer of novels

18. The first woman prime minister of Israel was:

a) Henrietta Szold b) Emma Lazrus c) Golda Meir

19. The discoverer of the first effective treatment against poliomyelitis was:

a) Mother Cabrini b) Sister Kenny a) Clara Barton

20. The founder of the Christian Science religion was:

a) Antoinette Brown Blackwell b) Mary Baker Eddy c) Louisa May Alcott

21. The author of Women and Economics, an important 19th Century feminist document was:

a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman b) Margaret Fuller c) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

22. Martha Graham was a well-known:

a) mountain climber and explorer b) ecologist c) dancer and choreographer

23. The Soong sister who was a vice-premier of Communist China is:

a) Meiling Soong Chiang b) Ailing Soong Kung c) Chingling Soong Sun

24 The teacher of Helen Keller was:

a) Anne Sullivan Macy b) Laura Bridgman c) Emma Willard

25. The first American-trained opera singer to sing at the Metropolitan Opera was:

a) Rosa Ponselle b) Beverly Sills c) Maria Callas

26. Sojourner Truth was:

a) The founder of a religious sect that preached God in black

b) A freed slave who was the first black to win a court action against whites

c) A self-taught lawyer and polemicist

27. The first woman to swim the English channel received a ticker-tape parade welcome in New York City. Her name was Gertrude Ederle, and the year of her achievement was:

a) 1916 b) 1926 c) 1936

28. The author of Kristin Lavransdatter received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928. her name is:

a) Sigrid Undset b) Baroness Orczy c) Edith Wharton

29. The first nation to grant its female citizens the right to vote did so in 1889. The country was:

a) Denmark b) Switzerland c) New Zealand

30. Isabella Beeton, 19th century author of the famed work on cookery and domestic science entitled "Household Management," died at the age of:

a) 29 b) 49 c) 79

31. The noted American anthropologist, author of Patterns of Culture was:

a) Margaret Mead b) Ruth Benedict c) Carolyn Wells

32. The doctor who created a test that evaluates a baby's condition within one minute after birth is:

a) Margaret Sanger b) Marie Stopes c) Virginia Apgar

33. The Bandit Queen, a confederate of the notorious Jesse James gang was:

a) Sadie Thompson b) Belle Starr c) Kitty Black

34. The originator of the world-famous wax works exhibited in London was:

a) Mary Beale b) Florence Artaud c) Marie Tussard

35. Johanna Spyri, the author of the famous children's book, Heidi, was:

a) Norwegian b) Swiss c) Russian

36.  The woman who shared the Nobel prize in medicine with George Hitchings in 1988 for developing a drug to use against leukemia was:

a) Gertrude Ellion  b)  Emma Blackwell c) Mary Summerville
 

The answers: 1. Poland, 2. Hull House, 3. Photography, 4. Emmeline Pankhurst, 5. 1533, 6. Catherine Breshkovshy, 7. a champion athlete, 8. Harriet Ross Tubman, 9. elementary education, 10. Ellen Swallow Richards
11. George Elliot, 12. advertising executive, 13. Dorothea Dix, 14. birth control pioneer, 15. the Crimean War, 16. the first Irish aviator, 17. an anthropologist, 18. Golda Meir, 19. Sister Kenny, 20. Mary Baker Eddy,
21. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 22. dancer and choreographer,
23. Chingling Soong, 24. Anne Sullivan Macy,25. Beverly Sills,
26. A freed slave who was the first black to win a court action against whites,
27. 1926, 28. Sigrid Undset, 29. New Zealand, 30. 79, 31. Ruth Benedict,
32. Virginia Apgar, 33. Belle Starr, 34. Marie Tussard, 35. Swiss.
36. Gertrude Ellion
 

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