Quiz  /  Women’s History: Leaders Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who was the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress?

  • Carol Moseley Braun
  • Toni Cade Bambara
  • Cynthia McKinney
  • Shirley Chisholm

  • 2. 
    Who was the world’s first woman prime minister?

  • Indira Gandhi
  • Golda Meir
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike

  • 3. 
    Which queen was known as “the Virgin Queen”?

  • Anne
  • Elizabeth I
  • Mary I
  • Isabella I

  • 4. 
    Who was the first woman in New Zealand to hold the office of prime minister immediately following an election?

  • Helen Clark
  • Mary Robinson
  • Julia Gillard
  • Eugenia Charles

  • 5. 
    Who was Ireland’s first woman president?

  • Mary Robinson
  • Golda Meir
  • Jennifer Shipley
  • Helen Clark

  • 6. 
    Who was the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States?

  • Kamala Harris
  • Victoria Woodhull
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Geraldine Ferraro

  • 7. 
    When did Elizabeth II become queen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland?

  • 1944
  • 1948
  • 1952
  • 1963

  • 8. 
    Which American first lady’s defense of the rights of African Americans, youth, and the poor during the 1930s and ’40s helped bring those groups into the American political process?

  • Lou Hoover
  • Helen Taft
  • Florence Harding
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

  • 9. 
    Who was titular queen of England for nine days?

  • Elizabeth I
  • Lady Jane Grey
  • Catherine of Aragon
  • Anne Boleyn

  • 10. 
    Which American first lady was the first to win elective office in her own right?

  • Florence Harding
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Betty Ford
  • Edith Wilson

  • 11. 
    Who was the foremost figure of the woman suffrage movement in Britain?

  • Lucy Burns
  • Germaine Greer
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Emmeline Pankhurst
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