National Volunteer Week Quiz

Type your name, department, and extension into the boxes below. Then, answer the following questions. After you are finished, print the quiz and bring it to the library or send it via inter-office mail. You may use any sources you wish to answer the questions. The answers and prizes will be announced during National Volunteer Week. Good luck!

Name: Department: Extension:

1. Which U.S. president was the first to sign an executive order establishing National Volunteer Week?
a. Carter b. Kennedy c. Nixon d. Reagan

2. Who is the founder of the American Red Cross?
a. Elizabeth Dole b. Clara Barton c. Florence Nightingale d. Queen Marie of Romania

3. In what year was Habitat for Humanity International founded?
a. 1908b. 1976 c. 1985 d. 1884

4. Which of the following newspeople served in the Peace Corps?
a. Alberto Ibargüen b. Barbara Walters c. Walter Cronkite d. Katharine Graham

5. Enter the name of one person who is a current volunteer at the Freedom Forum/Newseum:

Who said it?

6. "There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause."
a. Albert Einstein b. Thomas Jeffersonc. Eleanor Roosevelt d. Ann Landers

7. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
a. Bette Midler b. Bobby Seale c. Margaret Mead d. Ralph Nader

8. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
a. Lee Iacocca b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton c. Pat Robertson d. Anne Frank

9."Everybody Doing Something for Somebody" was the slogan of
a. American Red Cross b. Salvation Army c. Junior League of Brooklyn d. Volunteers of America

10. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
a. Jesse Jacksonb. Dr. Seussc. John Lennond. Mr. Rogers

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