Question #1: This famous historian, sociologist, and activist, also made huge impacts on the field of public health through his ethnographic research featured in The Philadelphia Negro and The Souls of Black Folks.

A) W.E.B. Du Bois
B) Martin Luther King, Jr.
C) Stokely Carmichael
D) Floyd McKissick

Question #2: This surgeon and medical researcher was the director of the first American Red Cross Blood Bank, and he also protested against racial segregation in the donation of blood.

A) William Hinton, MD
B) Roscoe Conkling Brown Sr
C) Charles R. Drew
D) Numa Pompilius Garfield Adams

Question #3: This physician and public health official was the first African American to be appointed as the Surgeon General of the United States in 1993.

A) Henrietta Lacks
B) Joycelyn Elders
C) Patricia Bath
D) Adah Belle Samuels Thoms

Question #4: This American abortion rights activist with a background in nursing and midwifery become the first African American president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1978.

A) Harriette Pipes McAdoo, Ph.D.
B) Marilyn Hughes Gaston
C) Faye Wattleton
D) Inez Beverly Prosser, Ph.D.

Question #5: This distinguished epidemiologist and researcher studies the social determinants of health concerning racism and discrimination. He is best known for his hypothesis known as “John Henryism.”

A) Paul Bertau Cornely, M.D., PhD
B) Maxie Clarence Maultsby, Jr, M.D.
C) Solomon Carter Fuller, M.D.
D) Sherman A. James

Question #6: This physician and public health researcher used her desire to elevate the African American community through improved health conditions to found the Aspiranto Health Home in 1931.

A) Virginia Margaret Alexander
B) Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner
C) Mary Eliza Mahoney
D) Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Question #7: This physician and innovator pioneered the idea that violence should be seen as a public health problem and a social “disease” rather than a criminal justice problem, as well as the idea that violence needs a preventative approach.

A) Helene D. Gayle
B) Deborah Prothrow-Stith
C) Bebe Moore Campbell
D) E. Kitch Childs, Ph.D.

Question #8: This renowned psychologist and writer concluded that therapeutic treatment options for Black families needed to be socially, culturally, and economically sensitive.

A) Loyce Pace
B) Donna M. Christensen
C) Mae Jemison
D) Nancy Boyd-Franklin

Question #9: This renowned psychologist was the first Black man to earn his Ph.D. in psychology and is often referred to as “the Father of Black Psychology.”

A) Francis Cecil Sumner, Ph.D.
B) Robert Lee Williams, II
C) Joseph L. White, Ph.D.
D) James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H.

Question #10: This engineer, trained physician and former NASA astronaut was the first Black woman to travel to space.

A) Ionia Rollin Whipper
B) Mae Jemison
C) Linda James Myers, Ph.D.
D) Freda C. Lewis-Hall, M.D.