Humanities › History & Culture Women's History Quiz Test Your Knowledge Suffrage Demonstration in London. SuperStock / Getty Images History & Culture Women's History Key Events History Of Feminism Important Figures Women's Suffrage Women & War Laws & Womens Rights Feminist Texts American History African American History African History Ancient History and Culture Asian History European History Genealogy Inventions Latin American History Medieval & Renaissance History Military History The 20th Century View More By Jone Johnson Lewis Jone Johnson Lewis Women's History Writer B.A., Mundelein College M.Div., Meadville/Lombard Theological School Jone Johnson Lewis is a women's history writer who has been involved with the women's movement since the late 1960s. She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute. Learn about our Editorial Process Updated on March 18, 2017 1. Who was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court? Abigail Adams Hillary Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sandra Day O'Connor Phyllis Schlafly Correct Wrong O'Connor was the first, Ginsburg the second. Clinton, Adams, and Schlafly were never appointed to the Court. 2. The first woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice began her term in what year? 1975 1981 1983 1987 1992 Correct Wrong Ronald Reagan appointed her in 1981. 3. What was the first coeducational college in the United States? Oberlin Collegiate Institute Andover Newton College Radcliffe College University of Tennessee College of William and Mary Correct Wrong Oberlin was first. Radcliffe admitted women earlier, but was the women's school associated with men-only Harvard. 4. Who was the daughter of the infamous Anne Boleyn? Anne of Cleves Anne Askew Queen Elizabeth I Queen Mary I Jane Seymour Correct Wrong Anne Boleyn was the second wife and queen of Henry VIII. Mary I was the daughter of his first wife. Anne of Cleves and Jane Seymour were his fourth and third wives. Anne Askew was a Protestant martyr. 5. Who was Emily Dickinson's famous contact who helped edit her poetry? Margaret Brent Jennie Churchill T. W. Higginson Henry David Thoreau Mary Wollstonecraft Correct Wrong Thomas Wentworth Higginson is also known for officiating at the feminist marriage of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, and for leading black troops in the Civil War, in addition to his time as a literary editor, which is where he came into contact with the reclusive Emily Dickinson. 6. Eleanor Roosevelt was orphaned at what age? 4 10 14 16 18 Correct Wrong Her father, who doted on her, separated from the family when Eleanor was six. Her mother, cold to Eleanor, died when Eleanor was eight, and her father died two years later. 7. Who was the first modern woman to graduate from medical school? Clara Barton Florence Nightingale Elizabeth Blackwell Mary Ewing Outerbridge Correct Wrong Elizabeth Blackwell holds that honor. Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale were nurses. Mary Ewing Outerbridge brought lawn tennis to the United States. 8. In what year did Switzerland adopt woman suffrage? 1893 1910 1920 1939 1971 Correct Wrong Yes, it really was that late. The same year 18-21 year old women (and men) in the United States won the right to vote. More: International Woman Suffrage Timeline 9. Which one of these women was not part of the French Revolutionary era? Marie Antoinette Charlotte Corday Olympe de Gouge Christine de Pizan Madame de Staël Correct Wrong Christine de Pizan was a medieval writer, living in the 14th and 15th centuries, long before the French Revolution. Marie Antoinette was the executed queen, Charlotte Corday the assassin of the French Jacobin publisher Marat, Madame de Staël was a writer and hostess known for her salons and for her later opposition to Napoleon. 10. What was the Malleus Maleficarum? A medieval book of advice for housewives A Roman treatise on the nature of woman The first compilation of biographies of women A handbook for witch hunters A listing of women heretics Correct Wrong This "Hammer of Witches" was written in the 15th century as a guide to inquisitors to accurate identify witchcraft. 11. Who was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature? Jane Addams Pearl Buck Selma Lagerlöf Toni Morrison Sigrid Undset Correct Wrong Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909. Sigrid Undset, a Norwegian novelist, won the same prize in 1928. Jane Addams won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931. In 1993, Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. 12. Which Nobel Prize was Barbara McClintock awarded? Economics Literature Peace Physics Physiology or Medicine Correct Wrong She won the Nobel prize in 1983 for work with chromosomes, discovering a key mechanism in genetic regulation and transposition. Her work was largely ignored for years until others replicated it. 13. Who was not at the Woman's Rights Convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York? Susan B. Anthony Frederick Douglass Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Martha Coffin Wright Correct Wrong Susan B. Anthony did not meet her long-time partner in suffrage work, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, until after the Seneca Falls convention. But Anthony did read about it. Lucretia Mott and Martha Coffin Wright worked with Stanton to organize the convention. Frederick Douglass attended and published about it in his newspaper. 14. Which woman was not a figure in the Harlem Renaissance? Regina Anderson Marita Bonner Zora Neale Hurston Nella Larsen Alice Walker Correct Wrong Regina Anderson, Nella Larsen and Marita Bonner were Harlem Renaissance writers. Zora Neale Hurston was drawn to New York to study because of the Harlem Renaissance. In the 1970s, Alice Walker helped revive interest in Zora Neale Hurston's writings, bringing them back to public attention 15. Who co-authored a book on birth control, was then sentenced to prison? Annie Besant Lizzie Borden Mother Jones Anna Leonowens Ida Tarbell Correct Wrong Annie Besant, later known for her theosophical religious views, didn't serve her prison term because her conviction for distributing birth control literature was overturned. Read also about: Lizzie Borden, Mother Jones, Anna Leonowens, Ida Tarbell. 16. Marija Gimbutas is an ... ? admiral archaeologist environmentalist evangelist opera singer Correct Wrong Gimbutas is famous for her Kurgan Hypothesis, looking into the origins of Proto-Indo-European peoples. She's became more notorious for her works interpreting Old European culture as gynocentric and peaceful, and Indo-European culture of the Bronze Age as patriarchal and androcratic. 17. What was the Persons Case in Canada? Judicial recognition of women as legal persons An Anglican church finding for women's ordination An order requiring that the census count women as well as men A custody battle between Ed and Erma Persons An all-woman jury found that creationism must be taught in the schools Correct Wrong The Persons Case in the 1920s recognized that women were fully persons, including for rights and privileges such as running for office. 18. Who said this? "I paint my own reality." Mary Cassatt Artemisia Gentileschi Hannah Höch Frida Kahlo Georgia O'Keeffe Correct Wrong While all these women painters were creative, the quote is from Frida Kahlo. More: Mary Cassatt, Artemisia Gentileschi, Hannah Höch. Georgia O'Keeffe 19. Who is not known for mathematics, statistics, or computers? Marie Agnesi Hypatia Ada Lovelace Florence Nightingale Sappho Correct Wrong Marie Agnesi was a mathematics professor in the 18th century. Hypatia was a fourth and fifth century Greek teacher of mathematics and philosophy. Florence Nightingale, who is best known for nursing, applied statistics to that work, and invented the pie chart. Ada Lovelace created the concept of computer software. Sappho was a poet of ancient Greece, with no known connection to the field of mathematics. 20. Zenobia was ... ? queen of Palmyra a poet a philosopher a daughter of Cleopatra wife of Alexander the Great Correct Wrong Zenobia ruled Palmyra, a Roman trading center in the desert in the 3rd century. Women's History Quiz You got: % Correct. Are you sure you're trying? Paul Bradbury / Stone / Getty Images You got very few right. Not paying much attention? Below you'll find some more resources on women's history that you may find helpful if you want to know more about this topic. 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