Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j7QIYcG10514; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:34:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:34:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000901c5aa6c$bb2d5f70$220a4d0c@judith> Errors-To: listowner@nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "JUDITH SINCLAIR" <j-p-sinclair@worldnet.att.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3286] Re: Women's equality day X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 4320 Lines: 148 Daphne, this is a great quiz. If you don't mind, I would like to give this to my own students. Thank you. Judith P. Sinclair, PhD Owner/Executive Director Sinclair & Associates International, LLC Washington, DC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:16 PM Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3285] Women's equality day > Today, August 26th is Women's Equality Day. > According to the National Women's History Project Website: > (http://www.nwhp.org/events/equality-day/history-of-equality-day.html) > > "At the behest of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), in 1971 the U.S. Congress > designated August 26 as "Women's Equality Day." The date was selected to > commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, > granting women the right to vote. This was the culmination of a massive, > peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in > 1848 at the world's first women's rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New > York." > > I found this quiz from the National Women's History Project and I thought > that it might be a fun activity to do with a GED level class: > http://www.nwhp.org/events/equality-day/equality-day-quiz.html > > To help celebrate Women's Equality Day, the National Women's History > Project developed a quiz to use at your events, or just around your > office, or in conversation with friends. It took 72 years for women to win > the right to vote. > 1. August 26th is celebrated as Women's Equality Day to commemorate > a. the work women did during the Second World War > b. the anniversary of women winning the right to vote > c. the flappers of the 1920's > d. the contemporary women's rights movement > > 2. In what year did Congresswoman Bella Abzug introduced legislation to > ensure that this important American anniversary would be celebrated? > a. 1992 > b. 1984 > c. 1971 > d. 1965 > > 3. In what year did women in the United States win the right to vote? > a. 1776 > b. 1848 > c. 1920 > d. 1946 > > 4. How many years did it take for women to win the right to vote in the > United States? > a. 72 years > b. 120 years > c. 20 years > d. 51 years > > 5. Women in most of the western states won the right to vote years before > the Federal Amendment was secured. This is the 90th anniversary of women > in Kansas and Oregon winning the vote. What other state is celebrating the > 90th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in their state. > a. New York > b. Florida > c. Maine > d. Arizona > > 6. What was the name given to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which > guaranteed women's right to vote in the United States. > a. Abigail Adams Amendment > b. Sojourner Truth Amendment > c. Susan B. Anthony Amendment > d. Gloria Steinem Amendment > 7. Women who worked for women's right to vote were called > a. radical > b. immoral > c. suffragist > d. all of the above > > 8. The term suffragist is derived from > a. one who suffers > b. a voting tablet in ancient times > c. the Constitution > d. the Bill of Rights > > 9. How many other countries had already guaranteed women's right to vote > before the campaign was won in the United States? > a. 6 > b. 2 > c. 1 > d. 16 > > 10. What was the first country that granted women the right to vote? > a. Canada > b. Germany > c. New Zealand > d. United Kingdom > > > > Answers: > 1. b > 2. c > 3. c > 4. a (from the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848 > to 1920) > 5. d > 6. c > 7. d > 8. b > 9. d (New Zealand (1893), Australia (1902), Finland > (1906), Norway (1913), Denmark (1915), USSR (1917), Canada (1918), Germany > (1918), Poland (1918), Austria (1919), Belgium (1919), Great Britain > (1919), Ireland (1919), Luxembourg (1919), the Netherlands (1919), Sweden > (1919) > 10. c (1893) > > > Daphne Greenberg > Assistant Professor > Educational Psych. & Special Ed. > Georgia State University > P.O. Box 3979 > Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979 > phone: 404-651-0127 > fax:404-651-4901 > dgreenberg@gsu.edu > > Daphne Greenberg > Associate Director > Center for the Study of Adult Literacy > Georgia State University > P.O. Box 3977 > Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977 > phone: 404-651-0127 > fax:404-651-4901 > dgreenberg@gsu.edu > >
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