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Who wrote the Statement of Purpose for the founding of the National Organization for Women?
Gloria Steinem
Betty Friedan
Maya Angelou
Yoko Ono
What was the name of the first lesbian political and social organization?
NOW
Del’s Daughters
Colvin’s Club
Daughters of Bilitis
In what year did women first compete in the Olympics’ field events?
1940
1936
1912
1928
What prompted the nickname “flappers” for women in the 1920s?
They flapped their shirts up to expose bras
They wore short skirts, bobbed their hair
They flapped their arms like birds when dancing
They flapped their lips
Who was the woman at the head of a campaign to fight the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment?
Crystal Eastman
Alice Paul
Martha Griffiths
Phyllis Schlafly
What was Margaret Sanger’s main cause?
Fighting for rights of institutionalized women
Birth control
Votes for women
Temperance
What made the entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker famous?
Hair straightening process
Diaper pins
Butter churn
Lipstick
Which territory or state in America was the first to grant women suffrage?
Wyoming
Texas
Delaware
New York
Who penned the abolitionist book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Louisa May Alcott
Margaret Mitchell
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Name the first female doctor in America.
Dr. Ruth
Dorothea Dix
Elizabeth Blackwell
Abigail Bush
What was the first college opened for women?
Smith
Vassar
Mount Holyoke
Wellesley
Who is the Indian woman who accompanied Lewis & Clark’s 1804-06 expedition?
Pocahontas
Moana
Mulan
Sacagewea
A woman was America’s first published poet.
"True"
"False"
Which of these could be used to describe Harriet Tubman?
Spy
Underground Railroad Conductor
Nurse
All of the above
When was the first Women’s Rights Convention held?
1919
1848
1870
1965
When was Title IX passed?
1972
1975
1969
1970
Who was the first American female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart
Mary Earhart
Charlie Lindbergh
Mary Lindbergh
What year was the first in which the US sent more female than male athletes to the Olympic Games?
2012
1984
1978
2014
When was the first college course in women’s history offered?
1987
1969
1963
1977
The first team at any level to be paid to play baseball was all-female.
"True"
"False"
Who was the first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
Louisa Alcott
Jane Addams
Abigail Smith Adams
Maya Angelou
What did the WASPs do during World War II?
Army Services
Volunteer Emergency Service
Coast Guard
Airforce Services
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
23rd
21st
19th
15th
Which famous feminist was also a Playboy Bunny?
Gloria Steinem
Camille Paglia
Andrea Dworkin
Germaine Greer
What was the original cause of the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
Women drivers in Iran
Peaceful compromise
Equal rights for left-handed women
Education of women and girls in Pakistan
Which of these women helped co-found NOW, the National Organization for Women, in 1966?
Maya Angelou
Marlene Dietrich
Coretta Scott King
Coco Chanel
Who was the first female co-host of a news show?
Barbara Walters
Connie Chung
Kelly Ripa
Gloria Steinem
What is the name of this famous WWII fictional female?
Wendy the Welder
Sandy the Sailor
Jeannie the Janitor
Rosie the Riveter
Which First Lady is credited with being the first to take an advocacy role in the White House?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pat Nixon
Barbara Bush
Hillary Clinton
The Second Sex was well received globally when released in 1949.
"True"
"False"
What writing was suffragette Mary Wollstonecraft best known for?
Frankenstein’s Return
Vindication of the Rights of Women
The Second Sex
Ms. Magazine editorials
Who was the first woman elected to Congress?
Hattie Caraway
Margaret Chase Smith
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Geraldine Ferraro
Which of these women was not an early suffragette?
Susan B. Anthony
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Naomi Woolf
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What was the name of Sojourner Truth’s now famous speech?
My Narrative
Doll’s House
Ain’t I a Woman
Shadow of Substance
Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?
Gloria Steinem
Danielle Steele
bell hooks
Betty Friedan
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