Women's History Month Contest: Home

1. Answer all of the questions correctly.
2. Place your name and phone number on the answer sheet.
3. Cite all of your answers in MLA 8th edition.

MLA 8th Edition Style Guide

4. You may use any of the books located in the Taft College Library print or ebook. No internet sites.

See: http://lib.taftcollege.edu/FakeNews/EvaluatingAndFactChecking

Name:_____________________________                                                                                                         Phone #______________________

Women’s History Month Quiz Week 1

1. Who became the first female Secretary of State of the United States, appointed by President Clinton in 1997?

 

                    Hilary Clinton                                               Janet Reno                                            Madeleine Albright

 

 

2. Who was the ecologist writer whose path breaking book, “Silent Spring” in 1962 initiated the environmental movement?

 

                  Rachel Carson                                           Jane Goodall                                          Martha Matilda Harper

 

 

3. Who was imprisoned and then hanged for her Quaker Faith in Boston in 1660?

 

                 Margaret Fell                                              Ann Pamela Cunningham                        Mary Dyer

 

 

4. Who volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War, earning the nickname “Mother”?

 

Louisa May Alcott                                     Mary Ann Bickerdyke                                    Anna J. Cooper

 

 

5. Who was appointed as a delegate to the United Nations by president Harry Truman in 1946?

 

Eleanor Roosevelt                               Lorena Alice Hickok                                     Clara Barton

 

Please circle the correct answer. Cite the source you used on the line below each question in MLA 8^th edition according to the style’s guidelines.

 - NO CITATION- NO CREDIT-