Women Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which woman escaped slavery and then repeatedly returned to slaveholding states to guide other people toward freedom through the Underground Railroad?
Ida B. Wells
Mary McLeod Bethune
Harriet Tubman
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
2. A researcher finds an 1848 declaration stating that “all men and women are created equal.” Which earlier document most directly supplied its language and structure?
The Communist Manifesto
The United States Constitution
The United States Declaration of Independence
The Emancipation Proclamation
3. After the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, reformers focused most directly on which problem?
Unsafe workplaces and inadequate fire protections
Restrictions on women attending universities
The absence of women from military nursing
Unequal access to agricultural land grants
4. Which activist founded Kenya’s Green Belt Movement, connecting women’s community leadership with tree planting and environmental protection?
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Wangari Maathai
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Miriam Makeba
5. A historian says a 1920 amendment barred the United States and its states from denying voting rights “on account of sex,” while noting that discriminatory barriers still prevented many women from voting. Which amendment is meant?
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment
6. A museum label describes nineteenth-century notes explaining how Charles Babbage’s proposed Analytical Engine could process a sequence for calculating Bernoulli numbers. Whose work is being described?
Caroline Herschel
Mary Somerville
Ada Lovelace
Florence Nightingale
7. A government reviews a United Nations treaty addressing discrimination against women in political participation, education, employment, healthcare, and family life. Which treaty is it reviewing?
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
8. During the American Civil War, which accomplishment was part of Harriet Tubman’s service to the Union?
She founded a wartime school that became Howard University
She served as the first woman surgeon general of the Union Army
She negotiated the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery
She worked as a scout and spy and helped lead the Combahee Ferry raid
9. Which country became the first self-governing nation to grant women the right to vote in national parliamentary elections, doing so in 1893?
Norway
New Zealand
Australia
Finland
10. What was a central argument of Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
Women should exercise political influence mainly through aristocratic salons
Industrial employment would automatically create equality between the sexes
Women are rational beings who deserve serious education
Property ownership should replace education as the basis of citizenship
11. Malala Yousafzai became internationally known for advocating which cause?
Equal inheritance rights for agricultural land
Access to education, especially for girls
Paid parental leave for factory workers
Representation of women in international sports
12. Which achievement made Marie Curie unique among the early Nobel Prize recipients?
She became the first person to receive Nobel Prizes in two different sciences
She was the first scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same year
She received the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded for medical research
She was the first Nobel recipient to discover a vaccine
13. Archaeologists identify an Egyptian ruler associated with a long reign, major building projects at Deir el-Bahri, and images using traditional pharaonic regalia. Which woman ruler best fits these clues?
Nefertiti
Arsinoe II
Cleopatra VII
Hatshepsut
14. Who wrote the 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen during the French Revolution?
Olympe de Gouges
Madame de Staël
George Sand
Simone de Beauvoir
15. Two records describe U.S. suffrage organizations in the 1910s. One organization pursued lobbying and electoral campaigns, while the other became known for picketing the White House. Which pairing is correct?
The League of Women Voters pursued lobbying; the National Consumers’ League organized the pickets
The National Woman’s Party pursued lobbying only; NAWSA organized the White House pickets
The Women’s Trade Union League pursued lobbying; the League of Women Voters organized the pickets
NAWSA pursued lobbying and campaigns; the National Woman’s Party organized the pickets
16. A federally funded U.S. school offers substantially fewer athletic opportunities to girls than to boys. Which 1972 law is most directly relevant to evaluating that disparity?
The Equal Pay Act
Title IX of the Education Amendments
The Civil Rights Act’s Title VII
The Family and Medical Leave Act