• 1. 
    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
  • 2. 
    Who was the first female writer in the American colonies to be published?

  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Anne Arundell
  • Virginia Dare
  • Hester Prynne
  • 3. 
    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
  • 4. 
    Who is credited with making the first American flag in 1776?

  • Molly Pitcher
  • Sally Hemings
  • Abigail Adams
  • Betsy Ross
  • 5. 
    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
  • 6. 
    Which woman was an advocate for reform in prisons and mental institutions in the 1800s?

  • Dorothea Dix
  • Sarah Grimké
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Jane Addams
  • 7. 
    Which Quaker woman published

  • Amelia Bloomer
  • Sarah Grimké
  • Lucy Stone
  • Abby Kelley
  • 8. 
    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
  • 9. 
    Who wrote

  • Harriet Tubman
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Sarah Grimké
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • 10. 
    Clara Barton served as a nurse during what conflict?

  • World War I
  • The Civil War
  • Crimean War
  • World War II
  • 11. 
    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
  • 12. 
    Which woman was a key figure in the American temperance movement?

  • Dorothea Dix
  • Frances Perkins
  • Jane Addams
  • Frances Willard
  • 13. 
    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
  • 14. 
    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
  • 15. 
    In 1916, which woman opened the first birth control clinic in the United States?

  • Margaret Sanger
  • Lynette Fromme
  • Frances Perkins
  • Jane Addams
  • 16. 
    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
  • 17. 
    “Flappers” are most closely associated with what time period?

  • 1950s
  • 1920s
  • 1940s
  • 1930s
  • 18. 
    Who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize?

  • Sylvia Plath
  • Harper Lee
  • Sara Teasdale
  • Edith Wharton
  • 19. 
    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
  • 20. 
    Who was the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet?

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Geraldine Ferraro
  • Martha Washington
  • Frances Perkins
  • 21. 
    Rosie the Riveter played a symbolic role for women during which event?

  • World War II
  • The Great Depression
  • Civil War
  • World War I
  • 22. 
    Which woman helped draft the

  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Olympe de Gouges
  • 23. 
    Who wrote

  • Olympe de Gouges
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Betty Friedan
  • 24. 
    Who wrote

  • Celia Hunter
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Rachel Carson
  • Margaret Murie
  • 25. 
    Who wrote

  • Betty Friedan
  • bell hooks
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Kate Millett
  • 26. 
    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
  • 27. 
    Who was the first African American woman elected to Congress?

  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Barbara Jordan
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Angela Davis
  • 28. 
    Which Supreme Court decision lifted restrictions on access to abortion services?

  • Roe v. Wade
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Loving v. Virginia
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • 29. 
    Which of the following banned gender discrimination in education?

  • Equal Rights Amendment
  • Title IX
  • 19th Amendment
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • 30. 
    The “Battle of the Sexes” between athletes Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973 occurred in what sport?

  • Golf
  • Bowling
  • Tennis
  • Swimming
  • 31. 
    Who was the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court?

  • Sonia Sotomayor
  • Elena Kagan
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Sandra Day O’Connor
  • 32. 
    Who was the first American woman to go into space?

  • Sally Ride
  • Christa McAuliffe
  • Amelia Earhart
  • Judith Resnik
  • 33. 
    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
  • 34. 
    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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