Women's History Month: Home

If you think that you know the answer to the following trivia questions please send an email with your name, phone number and answers to library@taftcollege.edu

All correct answers will be entered into a drawing for a prize. Drawings will be held March 29th when the library opens at 7:45 a.m.

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Women’s History Month Quiz

1. What woman is credited with helping free more than 2,000 Chinese women and children smuggled into San Francisco to be sold as slaves?

 

             Hilary Clinton                                                                Janet Reno                                       Donaldina Cameron

 

2. Who was the first African American woman to have a nationally syndicated comic strip, Where I’m Coming From?

 

              Barbara Brandon-Croft                                             Jane Goodall                                      Martha Matilda Harper

 

 

3. Before Rosie the Riverter there were the Farmerettes, what women’s organization were the Farmerettes associated with?

 

Women’s Land Army of America (WWLA)          National Women’s Trade Union League                 Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)

 

 

4. What famous female anthropologist wrote, Coming of Age in Samoa?

 

Louisa May Alcott                                 Mary Ann Bickerdyke                                Margaret Mead

 

 

5. Who was the first woman of color in congress to oppose G. Harold Carswell’s nomination in 1970, helping to clear a path for Roe vs. Wade?

 

Patsy Takemoto Mink                                  Lorena Alice Hickok                                Clara Barton