Back to quiz

6. What was the 'Cat and Mouse' Act?

  • An act that allowed prisoners on hunger strike to be released and then re-arrested
  • An act that stopped suffragettes teasing the government
  • The banning of the suffragette newsletter,
  • An pest removal act

7. When were the suffragettes founded?

  • 1897
  • 1903
  • 1902
  • 1910

8. What were the names of the three leading suffragettes?

  • Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia
  • Emily, Christabel and Sylvia
  • Emmeline, Christina and Sylvia
  • Emily, Christina and Sylvia

9. What was not a violent method used by the suffragettes?

  • Destroying government legislations
  • Attacking ministers
  • Destroying mail
  • Burning railway stations

10. The suffragettes stopped their campaign for the vote during the First World War.

  • True
  • False

11. What does the NUWSS do?

  • Campaign for social equality with men
  • Campaign peacefully for the vote
  • Campaign violently for the vote
  • Protest against the suffragettes