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Questions
1. Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts authored the May 1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) Act, which created up to 150,000 noncombat positions for women in the U.S. Army. These positions were primarily in what field?
nursing
entertainment
cooking
uniform maintenance
2. Beginning with Representative Mae Nolan in 1923, eight of the women who followed Jeannette Rankin into Congress between 1917 and 1934 ...
were widows who succeeded their late husbands.
won the election by landslide margins.
won the election by only a very small margin.
were young, unmarried women.
3. As of 2019, which state had not yet sent a woman to Congress?
Texas
Vermont
Georgia
Arizona
4. ____ women entered Congress for the first time between 1935 and 1954, a tumultuous two decades that encompassed the Great Depression, World War II, and the start of the Cold War. (how many?)
23
15
45
36
5. The decline in the number of women who pursued higher education during the early 1950s can be attributed in large part to _____. In 1920, 47 percent of college students were women; by 1958 that figure stood at 38 percent.
poverty
an increasing highschool dropout rate
a lack of federal aid to pay for university education
marital and familial priorities
6. The first woman elected to the House after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment was Alice Mary Robertson of what state?
California
Oklahoma
Texas
Oregon
7. The 1960s saw the number of new women serving on Capitol Hill drop; only __ women were elected or appointed to office during the entire decade.
15
18
11
20
8. Jeannette Rankin was the only woman to win election to Congress before the Nineteenth Amendment. Which state elected her?
California
Washington state
Montana
Florida
9. _____ was the first woman to serve in the presidential Cabinet.
Florence Allen
Frances Perkins
Katharine Byron
Eleanor Roosevelt
10. Patsy Mink who was one of the first _____ to be elected to Congress, saw herself as a spokesperson or a "surrogate representative" for all American women especially concerning women's issues.
of several women from California
women over 45
modern feminists
widows
11. When the documetary "Makers: Women in Politics" was created (in 2014), women comprised only __ percent of the Senate.
8
30
15
20
12. National grassroots groups Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress recruited ______ to run against established politicians in Congress [from Knock Down the House].
outsider candidates
experienced candidates
only Democratic candidates
only Republican candidates
13. Isra Allison from Brand New Congress said, "We don't care about ____. We just want to get stuff done." [from Knock Down the House]
what men think
who we have to go against
party
how we win
14. True or False. The number of women in Congress continues, slowly, to grow.
True
False
15. ____ saw a record number of women elected to Congress. But that happened again in 2020 and 2022.
2012
2014
2018
2016
16. Today, women comprise __ percent of the Senate.
25
30
10
14
17. Paula Jean Swearengin ran for Congress in 2018 (and 2020) to represent which state?
Texas
South Carolina
New York
West Virginia
18. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the congressional primary about the incumbant Democratic representative. What was the incumbant's name? [from Knock down the House]
Joseph Crowley
Robert Kennedy Jr.
Kevin McCarthy
Eric Powell
19. According to Corbin Tren of Justice Democrats, the biggest shared goal of the two groups Justic Democrats and Brand New Congress was to .... [from Knock Down the House].
get more Democrats in office
remove the corrupting influence of money in politics
get anyone into Congress who would work against Trump
elect only women into Congress
20. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now serves in Congress as a representative for which state?
Vermont
New York
Maine
Virginia