Question 1

True or false: She founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 in the United States.

Accepted Answer

False. The WSPU was founded in Manchester, England, not the US. Pankhurst was British and focused on UK suffrage.

Question 2

True or false: She was once force-fed in prison after going on a hunger strike to protest her treatment.

Accepted Answer

True. Pankhurst underwent force-feeding multiple times, a brutal practice she later wrote about in her autobiography.

Question 3

True or false: Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested more than a dozen times for her militant suffrage activities.

Accepted Answer

True. She was arrested about 13 times, often going on hunger strike and enduring force-feeding, but never served long sentences.

Question 4

True or false: Emmeline Pankhurst was a lifelong pacifist who opposed all forms of violence.

Accepted Answer

False. She endorsed property destruction and even violence to gain attention for suffrage, contradicting pacifism.

Question 5

True or false: She supported World War I and encouraged women to work in factories while men fought.

Accepted Answer

True. Pankhurst suspended suffrage activism during WWI, backing the war effort and urging women to take industrial jobs.

Question 6

True or false: Pankhurst was a close friend of Susan B. Anthony and co-led the US suffrage movement.

Accepted Answer

False. Pankhurst was British and never co-led in the US. Susan B. Anthony was American and died in 1906, years before Pankhurst's peak.

Question 7

True or false: Pankhurst once declared that the vote was more important than human life, including her own.

Accepted Answer

True. She said, 'The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics,' valuing disruption over safety.

Question 8

True or false: She died in 1928, just weeks before British women gained equal voting rights to men.

Accepted Answer

True. Pankhurst died on June 14, 1928, and the Representation of the People Act passed on July 2, 1928.

Emmeline Pankhurst Trivia Questions