Quiz  /  Women’s History: Famous Firsts

  • 1. 
    The world’s first novel was written by a woman.

  • True
  • False

  • 2. 
    The first woman to swim the English Channel was French.

  • True
  • False

  • 3. 
    Author Zora Neale Hurston was the first African American graduate of Barnard College.

  • True
  • False

  • 4. 
    Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific.

  • True
  • False

  • 5. 
    The first woman in space was from Russia.

  • True
  • False

  • 6. 
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

  • True
  • False

  • 7. 
    The first African American to win an Academy Award was a woman.

  • True
  • False

  • 8. 
    Nadia Comăneci was the first person to achieve a perfect score of 10 in Olympic gymnastics.

  • True
  • False
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