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Famous Illinoisans Part 2
Test Description: Part 2 of the Famous Illinoisans test
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) This woman was the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with immigrants and the poor. Ironically, she had to leave medical school, due to illness.
A
Jane Addams
B
Mahalia Jackson
C
Gwendolyn Brooks
D
Jennie Ward
2) This woman loved reading and began writing poems at an early age. She was named our state poet in 1968.
A
Ada Kepley
B
Dr. Mae Jemison
C
Gwendolyn Brooks
D
Oprah Winfrey
3) This lady was a famous historian and the first female president of a coed university, The University of Chicago.
A
Jane Addams
B
Ada H. Kepley
C
Hanna Holborn Gray
D
Mary Harris Thompson
4) This famous cartoonist wrote for “The New Yorker” magazine for 25 years before dying in a strange airplane crash in 1949.
A
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
B
Helen Hokinson
C
Hanna Holborn Gray
D
Mahalia Jackson
5) Born in 1889, this famous female, along with her brother, were high trapeze artists with the Ringling Brothers’ Show.
A
Dr. Mae Jemison
B
Jennie Ward
C
Mrs. Landreth
D
Oprah Winfrey
6) One of our country’s best-known and popular gospel singers who was also a leader in the civil rights movement.
A
Oprah Winfrey
B
Michael Jordan
C
Michael Jackson
D
Mahalia Jackson
7) This famous talk show host also owns her own production company. (Remember, the production company is her name, spelled backwards!)
A
Wendy Williams
B
Jennie Ward
C
Mahalia Jackson
D
Oprah Winfrey
8) The first black woman in space (aboard the space shuttle Endeavour).
A
Gwendolyn Brooks
B
Jane Addams
C
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
D
Dr. Mae Jemison
9) The first female surgeon in the United States.
A
Mary Harris Thompson
B
Ada H. Kepley
C
Helen Hokinson
D
Dr. Mae Jemison
10) The first female lawyer in the United States.
A
Mahalia Jackson
B
Oprah Winfrey
C
Hanna Holborn Gray
D
Ada H. Kepley
11) The “greatest woman athlete of the second half of the 20th century.” She won Olympic gold TWICE in the heptathlon.
A
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
B
Mrs. Landreth
C
Oprah Winfrey
D
Mrs. Brubaker
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