1) Which powerful politician helped Florence Nightingale become a nurse for the British army? a) William Gladstone b) Herbert Sidney c) Sidney Herbert 2) Which hospital did Florence Nightingale work in? a) Constantinople b) Scutari c) Balaclava 3) Which disease was the biggest killer amongst the British wounded? a) Cholera b) Measles c) Plague 4) The Times newspaper created a fund to support Nightingale and her nurses in the Crimea. a) True b) False 5) What was Florence Nightingale's nickname? a) The Angel of Scutari b) The Lady with the Lamp c) The Night Nurse 6) Florence Nightingale's 38 nurses were selected on their....... a) religious background b) nursing ability c) colour of their skin 7) Nightingale was well liked by all of the nurses who worked with her. a) True b) False 8) Where was Mary Seacole from? a) Barbados b) Jamaica c) America 9) When she applied for a job with Florence Nightingale she was rejected. a) True b) False 10) Mary previously worked curing the victims of........ a) measles b) maleria c) cholera 11) She paid her own way to the Crimea and set up a hotel for the soldiers, what was it called? a) The British Hotel b) The Seacole Hotel c) The Seacole Inn 12) Florence Nightingale visited the front line to help wounded soldiers but Mary Seacole never left her hotel. a) True b) False 13) Florence Nightingale made which profession more respectable? a) Surgeons b) Doctors c) Nursing 14) Mary Seacole returned from the Crimea...... a) bankrupt b) rich c) in a coffin 15) She died in poverty forgotten by everyone. a) True b) False

Nightingale and Seacole quiz

by Anonymous
Embed

Leaderboard

Visual style

Options

Switch template

Continue editing: ?