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Woman's History Quiz

Match A Woman’s Name to a clue or her Accomplishment

Sonia Sotomayor       Sacagawea                          Viola Liuzzo          Jean Quan                           Shirley Chisholm        Louise Erdrich                         Toni Morrison        Malala Yousafzai                 Anita Hill           Frida Kahlo   Michaëlle Jean     Mammy



Chloe Wofford?

She survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban for advocating for girls to be educated. The youngest person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and the only winner from Pakistan?

This award winning Ojibwe woman features Native American characters and settings in her writings.  She recently won the National Book Award for her novel, The Round House?

The first Black woman to serve in the US Congress; the first major party African American candidate to run for President of the US; first woman to run for Democratic Presidential nomination? 

She is the first Asian American woman elected mayor of major US city—Oakland, California?

The first Latina Supreme Court Justice?

This activist, housewife and mother of five left her home in Detroit, Michigan to support Negro voting rights and was the first white woman killed during civil rights movement in 1965? 

This Mexican painter lived in a house as vivid as her paintings known as Blue House? 

A United States archetype for a Black woman—over weight, bosomy, older, dark complexioned, and opinionated—who worked for White families often raising their children?

Who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter and guide.  The US Mint issued a dollar coin in her honor?

Former Governor General of Canada.  During her term she focused on plight of female victims of violence? 

She bravely testified against US Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas regarding sexual harassment? 





T. Morrison; M. Yousafzai; L. Erdrich; S. Chisholm; J. Quan; S. Sotomayor; V. Liuzzo; F. Kahlo; Mammy; Sacadawea; M. Jean; A. Hill

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