Activity: Test Your Knowledge

  1. For two years she constructed a radio telescope which in 1967 led to her discovery of the
    first four pulsars. She is:
    a. Elizabeth Blackwell
    b. Margaret Mead
    c. Susan Bell Burnell

  2. This trial first introduced the principle of "the best interest of the child."
    a. Pennsylvania v. Addics
    b. Roe v. Wade
    c. Ireland v. Smith

  3. She helped bring provisions to soldiers on the front lines and set up the Bureau of Records. She is:
    a. Clara Barton
    b. Florence Nightingale
    c. Jane Addams

  4. Best known for her series of well-loved children's books, this writer published her first book at the age of 65. Her books, still popular today, are autobiographical tales of her own child-
    hood as a pioneer girl.
    a. Jane Austen
    b. Laura Ingalls Wilder
    c. J. K. Rowling

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  Sorry! Try again.   Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) was the first woman to graduate from medical school (M.D.) and a pioneer in educating women in medicine.    [close]
  Sorry! Try again.   Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978) was a distinguished anthropologist.    [close]
Correct! For two years, Bell Burnell (1943 -) constructed the radio telescope which she would begin to operate in July 1967. Each complete coverage of the sky with the radio telescope required four days.   [close]
Correct! On July 10, 1813, a Pennsylvania court refused to turn over a child to its father, although he had divorced their mother for adultery. This important trial introduced the principle of "the best interests of the child" in determining custody.   [close]
  Sorry! Try again.   On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court invalidates all state laws restricting women's access to abortion and made abortion legal in the United States.    [close]
  Sorry! Try again.   On November 7, 1995, a Michigan appeals court reversed the trial court's decision to give custody of a woman's daughter to the father because she had put the child in day care; the case went back to the lower court and was reversed.    [close]
Correct! In 1853 Barton obtained an appointment as copyist in the Patent Office in Washington, D.C., becoming the first woman in America to hold such a government post.   [close]
  Sorry! Try again.   The English nurse Florence Nightingal (1820 - 1910) was the founder of modern nursing and made outstanding contributions to knowledge of public health.    [close]
  Sorry! Try again.   Jane Addams (1860 - 1935) is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement in the slums of Chicago in 1889 and was one of the first people who sought to improve the lives of the poor. She is also remembered for being the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.    [close]
  Sorry! Try again.   The English writer Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century. She wrote many novels among which are Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.    [close]
Correct! Wilder did not begin writing her first book, Little House in the Big Woods, until 1931 and it was released the following year. The instant success of the book led to the Little House series, which became popular with young readers.   [close]
  Sorry! Try again.   The English writer Joan Kathleen Rowling (1966 -) has won many awards for her children's books. She is the author of the amazingly popular new Harry Potter series.    [close]