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Quiz about On the Lines American Women In Action
Quiz about On the Lines American Women In Action

On the Lines: American Women In Action Quiz


These women went beyond being back stage and took steps to make things happen (and get famous for doing something brave, illegal, intelligent, unspeakable). Which of them do you know?

A multiple-choice quiz by Windswept. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Windswept
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
293,570
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
10 / 15
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870
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Question 1 of 15
1. Who was the powerful woman of mixed racial backgrounds who was a tireless fighter for women's rights, worker's freedom and personal liberty from the control of the bosses? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. This radical had a violent relationship with her father. She and her intimate companion, anarchist Alexander Berkman, decided that to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as "an act of propaganda by the deed." (Yes, there is a real similarity to what Parsons said. Goldman called it "propaganda by deed.") Frick survived and Berkman was put in jail. This radical went on to found "Mother Earth," distributed information about birth control, had mixed relationships with the Bolshevik Revolution and, later in her life, became an iconic figure of cultural radicalism. Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Who was the first First Lady to hold her own weekly press conferences? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Who was called "Little Sure Shot" by Chief Sitting Bull? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. What famous African-American woman was not allowed to sing at the Constitution Hall in 1939, with the Daughters of the American Revolution? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. What was the name of the woman who became the first woman doctor of medicine in the U.S. in order, as she said it, to have an alternative to marriage? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. What was the woman's name of the person who enlisted in the American Civil War as Jack Williams? Additionally, it is said that she walked over her husband's dead body when she received commands to move elsewhere. Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. What super famous woman outlaw, whose name is forever associated with her partner, is supposed to have said after that partner got shot, "Look his head is bouncing all over the place"? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. Who became the first American woman rabbi? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. Who is the painter known for paintings of mothers and children? She was known to refuse to flirt with judges to try to gain their favor. Some of her painting show people reading. One of her famous paintings is called "Children on the Beach" and "Reading Le Figaro." Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. What word was Elizabeth Cady Stanton the first to take out of the marriage vows? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. Who was the first American woman banker to address the American Institute of Banking in 1918? Among other things, she said that success was not so much a matter of gender as of ability. Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Who was the first dancer to ever dance at the White House? Some have compared her dancing to Stravinsky's innotations in music. Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. Who was the underappreciated First Lady who wrote "Wildflowers Across America"? She fought hard for The Highway Beautification Act of 1965. Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. Who was the writer of plays and novels who also became a diplomat to Italy during the Eisenhower Administration? Hint



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1. Who was the powerful woman of mixed racial backgrounds who was a tireless fighter for women's rights, worker's freedom and personal liberty from the control of the bosses?

Answer: Lucy Parsons

Lucy Parsons (c 1853-1942) was a radical activist of mixed heritege: African-American, Native-American and Mexican. She wrote an article called "To Tramps" which argued for what she called "propaganda by the deed." She was an amazingly successful orator about whom the Chicago police said that she was "more dangerous than a thousand rioters."
2. This radical had a violent relationship with her father. She and her intimate companion, anarchist Alexander Berkman, decided that to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as "an act of propaganda by the deed." (Yes, there is a real similarity to what Parsons said. Goldman called it "propaganda by deed.") Frick survived and Berkman was put in jail. This radical went on to found "Mother Earth," distributed information about birth control, had mixed relationships with the Bolshevik Revolution and, later in her life, became an iconic figure of cultural radicalism.

Answer: Emma Goldman

Called "Red Emma" or "Queen of the Anarchists," Goldman, like many other radical anarchists, was affected by the Haymarket Affair, sometimes called Haymarket Riot or Haymarket Massacre. On Tuesday 4 May 1886 in Chicago, a rally turned violent. Some 180 policemen insisted that people at a rally immediately disperse.

A bomb was suddenly was thrown at police, and pandemonium broke out. At least 7 police men were killed and many civilians were wounded. In the wake of this event, many began to organize in support of the anarchists and of the 8 hour work day. Among many of her social commitments, Goldman was also respected famous for supporting the anarchists in Spain during the Civil War. Emma Goldman founded the famous journal "Mother Earth," "Living My Life," and a book called meaningfully "My Disillusionment in Russia."
3. Who was the first First Lady to hold her own weekly press conferences?

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt

In 1933 Roosevelt became the first First Lady to hold a regular press conference. She spoke only to women reporters on women's issues. By 1939 her activities and her writing began to focus on the difficulties in the lives of everyone -- male and female alike. Eleanor Roosevelt was an amazing woman: she was one of the early shapers of the United Nations and served as a delegate to the General Assembly from 1945-1952.
4. Who was called "Little Sure Shot" by Chief Sitting Bull?

Answer: Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley was a starring performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. She was incredibly accurate with her .22 caliber rifle. A story is repeatedly told that her aim was so excellent the Prince of Prussia, the man who would become the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, asked her to do the following: to knock the ashes off a cigarette he held in his mouth. With some trepidation, she asked him to hold it in his hand.

She offered 50 women sharpshooters to President McKinley in case the US went to war with Spain.

It appears that her offer was rejected.
5. What famous African-American woman was not allowed to sing at the Constitution Hall in 1939, with the Daughters of the American Revolution?

Answer: Marian Anderson

This refusal led to action: she later sang at the Lincoln Memorial before between 50,000 and 75,000 people. Anderson was said to be such a profund inner person that she was not about to "tangle on a low level with anybody." The much revered Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry that Anderson had been rejected that she (Roosevelt) resigned her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was the first African-American singer to sing at the White House; additionally, she sang at Eisenhower's and Kennedy's innaugurations. Arturo Toscani said of her contralto voice that hers was "a voice heard but once in a century."
6. What was the name of the woman who became the first woman doctor of medicine in the U.S. in order, as she said it, to have an alternative to marriage?

Answer: Elizabeth Blackwell

She put her reaction more directly, that she wanted to looking for a "barrier" to matrimony. She went on to found the London School for Medicine for Women. She went back and forth between Europe and the United States. Then, she had a serious injury which left her blind in one eye and so she gave up plans to become a surgeon.

She did meet Florence Nightingale. When she came back to America, many people would have nothing to do with her, so she was initially forced to practice from her own house. She founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, gave many lectures which inspired other women to attempt the medical profession, and she also adopted a daughter who became vital part of her life.
7. What was the woman's name of the person who enlisted in the American Civil War as Jack Williams? Additionally, it is said that she walked over her husband's dead body when she received commands to move elsewhere.

Answer: Frances Clalin

Apparently, she served in the Missouri artillery and cavalry units. She was in about nineteen battles. Reports indicate that she smoked cigars, swore, gambled, chewed tobacco and was a fine 'horse-man.' Mary Livermore has written a book called "My Story of the War" (1880) which argues that there were probably fewer than four hundred women enlisted in great secrecy, often disguised as men, in the American Civil War.
8. What super famous woman outlaw, whose name is forever associated with her partner, is supposed to have said after that partner got shot, "Look his head is bouncing all over the place"?

Answer: Bonnie Parker

She said specifically, "look-a-there, his head bounced just like a rubber ball." Bonnie Parker initially wanted to be a writer and an actress. She was a high school poet and a stand out in her speech class. She got into an unhappy first marriage and somehow thought that Clyde Barrow would make her life all right. One thing led to another and they became legendary runaways. Reports from police who met her stated that she was not a "bloodthirsty killer," and that they wanted to protect her, giving her more comfortable clothes.

She and Clyde were shot and killed by a posse on May 23, 1934, ending their lives and the massive public engagement with both their lawlessness and the saga of their profound love.
9. Who became the first American woman rabbi?

Answer: Sally Jean Priesand

Priesand was ordained in 1972 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She did impressive watercolors and wrote "Judaism and the New Woman."
10. Who is the painter known for paintings of mothers and children? She was known to refuse to flirt with judges to try to gain their favor. Some of her painting show people reading. One of her famous paintings is called "Children on the Beach" and "Reading Le Figaro."

Answer: Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was an American painter who lived most of her life in France. "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could, of his art," she later recalled. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
11. What word was Elizabeth Cady Stanton the first to take out of the marriage vows?

Answer: obey

Stanton was married for forty seven years to Henry Brewster Stanton. She grew up, hearing her father say something like "Oh, I wish you had been a boy." Her rather delicate husband was, it appears, not at all in agreement with her positive views about women's suffrage. They spent a lot of time apart.
Stanton was for interracial marriage and paradoxically against giving African-Americans the right to vote. In 1965, her house The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House was declared a National Historic Monument.
12. Who was the first American woman banker to address the American Institute of Banking in 1918? Among other things, she said that success was not so much a matter of gender as of ability.

Answer: Evelyn Aldrich

Evelyn Aldrich was the head of the woman's department at a large New York bank. She told some 500 bankers that young men in particular make the 'girls' feel unwelcome and unable to compete. "Ability, she said, is not so much a matter of the sex as of the individual." http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A05E5DA1531E433A2575AC1A96F9C946996D6CF&oref=slogin
13. Who was the first dancer to ever dance at the White House? Some have compared her dancing to Stravinsky's innotations in music.

Answer: Martha Graham

Graham has been called one of the most eloquent artists of the twentieth century. Overall, she reshaped dance to create a "new language of movement" which would work in tandem with human emotions and feelings.
"I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."
14. Who was the underappreciated First Lady who wrote "Wildflowers Across America"? She fought hard for The Highway Beautification Act of 1965.

Answer: Lady Bird Johnson

Unlike what her delicate name might suggest, Lady Bird Johnson was a highly respected force in her own right, receiving The Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Her name has been associated with national beautification which she explains pithily by saying, "where flowers bloom, so does hope."
15. Who was the writer of plays and novels who also became a diplomat to Italy during the Eisenhower Administration?

Answer: Claire Booth Luce

Claire Booth Luce wrote three important and successful plays. She was on the editorial staffs of both "Vogue" and "Vanity Fair." Dwight Eisenhower appointed her to be ambassador to Italy which made her the first woman ambassador to a signicant country.

She was also a congresswoman from 1942-1946. Among other things, she is known for her wit and her sophistication, such as appear in the statement, "no good deed goes unpunished."
Source: Author Windswept

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