Susan B. Anthony Test - Garden of Praise

1. Susan B. Anthony was an advocate
for _____.
A. a clean environment
B. nuclear energy
C. women’s rights
D. sanitary conditions in hospitals
2. Susan was born into a _____ family in
Massachusetts.
A. Catholic
B. Quaker
C. Muslim
D. Buddhist
3. Her father refused to _____.
A. let his daughters work in the mill
B. pay his workers their wages
C. buy low grade cotton
D. buy cotton raised with slave labor
4. Mary Perkins was Susan’s_____.
A. mother
B. friend
C. teacher
D. sister
5. Susan became a teacher at age _____.
A. seventeen
B. fifteen
C. twenty
D. nineteen
6. She and her sister earned _____ a
week teaching plus room and board.
A. $15
B. $1.50
C. $150
D. $1500
Susan B. Anthony Test
7. During an economic downturn their
father _____.
A. prospered even though times were
hard
B. hired people who had lost jobs
C. lost his business and their home
D. ran off and left the family
8. She was once upset when she found
out she was being paid _____ of a man’s
salary.
A. one-fourth
B. one-half
C. twice the amount
D. one-third
9. When the family moved they
transported their belongings by ____.
A. train
B. boat down the Mississippi River
C. Ryder Truck
D. boat down the Erie Canal
10. The temperance movement sought to
_____.
A. help people refrain from anger
B. prohibit the production and
consumption of alcohol
C. regulate the production of steel
D. discourage people from smoking
11. Women during that time could not
_____.
A. wear long dresses
B. have more than three children
C. go out alone without their husbands
D. own property or vote

12. She worked with _____ to help
abolish slavery.
A. Frederick Douglass
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Sojourner Truth
D. Harriet Tubman
13. Some in the women’s movement
wore _____ beneath their dresses.
A. guns
B. money belts
C. bloomers
D. shorts
14. Finally, in support of the women’s
movement Susan _____.
A. began to wear riding pants
B. began to go out at night alone
C. donated all her money
D. cut her hair and dressed as they did
15. She once walked out of a meeting
because she had been told to _____.
A. stand up and make a speech
B. listen but not speak
C. dress in a different manner
D. give money to their cause
16. She refused to marry a Quaker man
because _____.
A. they had religious differences
B. she didn’t love him
C. she would have to abandon her
crusade
D. he was mean to her
17. The _____ in New York assured
women’s rights there.
A. Married Women’s Property Bill
B. Bill of Rights
C. Rights For All Women
D. Right to Vote
18. “Woman Suffrage” means a
woman_____.
A. must suffer
B. has the right to vote
C. is paid less than a man
D. must walk instead of ride
19. The first time Susan went to register
to vote she claimed that right under the
_____ Amendment.
A. Fourteenth
B. Thirteenth
C. Eighteenth
D. Nineteenth
20. At her trial when the judge asked if
she wanted to say anything Susan_____.
A. declined to comment
B. cursed at the jury
C. kept on talking until they fined her
D. said only three sentences
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