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Pop Quiz: All About Women in History

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1.

Who was the first African American woman elected to Congress?

Eleanor Holmes Norton
Shirley Chisholm
Barbara Jordan

2.

Who was the pioneering leader of the American birth control movement?

Faye Wattleton
Jocelyn Elders
Margaret Sanger

3.

Which of these feminists helped found the National Organization of Women?

Betty Friedan
Kate Millett
Bella Abzug

4.

Which of these American women artists did not create exclusively abstract works?

Georgia O'Keeffe
Louise Nevelson
Helen Frankenthaler

5.

Which of these women aviators disappeared while attempting to fly around the world?

Beryl Markham
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart

6.

Which of these educators developed a revolutionary method of teaching young children?

Mary McLeod Bethune
Marian Wright Edelman
Maria Montessori

7.

Which of the following writers is well-known both as a cultural critic and as a novelist?

Simone Weil
Susan Sontag
Ada Louise Huxtable

8.

Who was the first American woman in space?

Eileen Collins
Sally Ride
Mae Jemison

9.

Which singer was known as "Empress of the Blues."

Betty Carter
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith