Trivia Facts Quiz: Test Your General Knowledge!

1. Which state created the first Board of Education?

Massachusetts

Maine

Vermont

Missouri

2. Who ran the Perkins Institution for the blind for 44 years?

Samuel Gridley Howe

Thomas Gallaudet

Cathrine Beecher

Prudence Crandall

3. Who wrote the "sketch book" ?

Edgar Allen Poe

Washington Irving

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

4. Henry David Thoreau refused to?

Pay a poll tax

Serve in the army

Say the Pledge of Allegiance

Publish his work

5. Support for public schools was strengthened because of the large number of?

Immigrants to the U.S.

Illiterate federal workers

Gangs among children

Teachers moving to the U.S.

6. The first college opened exclusively for African Americans was?

Lincoln University

Amherst College

Oberlin College

Gallaudet University

7. Common schools were supported by?

Wealthy families

Taxes

Immigrants

Donations

8. Children from well-to-do families in the early 1800s generally?

Attended public schools

Attended private schools

Were sent to military schools

Did not need to be educated

9. "Clotel" was the first published fiction by an African American, who wrote it?

Edgar Allen Poe

William Wells Brown

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emily Dickinson

10. Who spearheaded the campaign for common (public) schools?

Horace Mann

Thomas Gallaudet

Samuel Gridley

Prudence Crandall

11. This artist created the Hudson River School?

Joseph Henry

Sidney Mount

Hudson

Thomas Cole

12. Dr. Crawford Long and Dr. William Morton develop a substance that produced numbness during surgery?

Anesthetic

Numbness

Motrin

13. She discovered a comet in 1847 and taught herself astronomy?

Emily Dickinson

Maria Mitchell

Mrs. Rondeau

Maria Henry

14. What was a sum of money paid in exchange for the right to vote called?

Poll tax

Voters tax

Land tax

Position tax

15. Who was the first great American fictional hero?

Natty Bumpo

Rip Van Winkle

Sleepy Hollow

Herman Melville

16. McGuffey's Readers taught reading skills and?

Arithmetic

Health

Morals

Geography

17. Whose poems were "easy to understand and full of optimism"?

Walt Whitman

Henry David Thoreau

Edgar Allen Poe

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Trivia Facts Quiz: Test Your General Knowledge!

1. Which state created the first Board of Education?

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What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. Who ran the Perkins Institution for the blind for 44 years?

3. Who wrote the "sketch book" ?

4. Henry David Thoreau refused to?

5. Support for public schools was strengthened because of the large number of?

6. The first college opened exclusively for African Americans was?

7. Common schools were supported by?

8. Children from well-to-do families in the early 1800s generally?

9. "Clotel" was the first published fiction by an African American, who wrote it?

10. Who spearheaded the campaign for common (public) schools?

11. This artist created the Hudson River School?

12. Dr. Crawford Long and Dr. William Morton develop a substance that produced numbness during surgery?

13. She discovered a comet in 1847 and taught herself astronomy?

14. What was a sum of money paid in exchange for the right to vote called?

15. Who was the first great American fictional hero?

16. McGuffey's Readers taught reading skills and?

17. Whose poems were "easy to understand and full of optimism"?