Famous Nurses Quiz - Personalities Quiz (International Nurses Day)

Famous Nurses Quiz - International Nurses Day

12 May,the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth,  is celebrated as International Nurses Day. Attempt this quiz based on the famous nurses of the world and learn more about them.

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1. Who is known as the founder of modern nursing?

Clara Barton
Florence Nightingale
Mary Breckinridge
Dorothea Dix

2. She was the founder of American Red Cross and established National First Aid Association of America. Who is she?

Dorothea Dix
Margaret Sanger
Mary Seacole
Clara Barton

3. The diary about her daily nursing life provided valuable information to historians about into frontier-women's lives. The diary was later published as "A Midwife's Tale". Who is she?

Martha Ballard
Mary Breckinridge
Margaret Sanger
Dorothea Dix

4. This famous poet has served as nurse during the Civil War. His books of poems entitled "Drum-Taps" was written while he was serving as a nurse. Do you know him?

William Wordsworth
E. E. Cummings
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe

5. Who is the African-American woman to became a registered nurse?

Mary Eliza Mahoney
Dorothea Dix
Anna Caroline Maxwell
Elizabeth Grace Neill

6. Who is known as the "American Florence Nightingale"?

Hazel W. Johnson-Brown
Anna Maxwell
Elizabeth Grace Neill
Susie King Taylor

7. She popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Susie King Taylor
Elizabeth Grace Neill
Clara Barton
Margaret Sanger

8. First African-American woman general in history, she was originally a nurse by profession.

Hazel W. Johnson-Brown
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Virginia Avenel Henderson
Martha Ballard

9. Known as "the first lady of nursing", she is considered as the most famous nurse of the 20th century. She was the first recipient of Christiane Reimann Prize for outstanding nursing achievement in 1985.

Virginia Avenel Henderson
Florence Nightingale
Clara Barton
Anna Maxwell

10. "Hospital Sketches" (1863) by this famous American novelist is a compilation of four sketches based on letters sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Who is she?

Megan Abbott
Virginia Wolf
Louisa May Alcott
Emile Bronte

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