1. abortion
   birth control
2. eugenics

Sanger was a proponent of birth control, the idea of giving women control over their capacity for reproduction. She was one of the first American women to publicly address the topic of reproductive rights.

1. nursing
   teaching
2. law

Sanger became a nurse and spent much of her early career working in New York City. There, she became more politically involved, working especially in the area of progressive women's rights.

1. 18
   22
2. 26

Sanger's mother became pregnant 18 times in her lifetime and gave birth to 11 live children. Sanger herself had three children. It's no wonder that Sanger was obsessed with the issue.

1. had children by at least three women
   drank a lot
2. was a prominent politician

Her father was a hard-drinking man who rarely made the kind of living necessary to support a huge litter of children. Sanger's experiences with too many siblings and not enough money heavily influenced her life's course.

1. "Intimacy and You"
   "Reproductive Liberties"
2. "What Every Girl Should Know"

She wrote a blunt, candid column called "What Every Girl Should Know." It was meant to educate women about their bodies and how to control pregnancy.

1. thought it was a powerful force
   only tolerated it
2. found it disgusting

Sanger thought sex was a powerful force that could be enjoyable for both men and women. But she felt that the reproductive aspects shouldn't be left to chance.

1. had to flee the country
   had to endure public flogging
2. had to post bail

Sanger published a book about family planning -- a deed that violated the Comstock Act, which restricted public discussions of topics such as contraception. She fled the country for England.

1. France
   Netherlands
2. Austria

She visited Amsterdam (in the Netherlands) in 1915 and saw a family-planning center where diaphragms were available. She began shipping the contraceptive devices to the U.S. even though it was against the law.

1. Manhattan
   Brooklyn
2. East Harlem

In 1916, she opened the birth control center, a first for America, in the middle of Brooklyn. She was derided by the public and arrested about a week later.

1. environmental hazards
   societal pressure
2. economic well-being

Sanger was discouraged when people had too many children and not enough money to support them. She wanted women to have children only if they could afford to properly care for them.

1. thought it might prevent overpopulation
   found it offputting
2. thought it was a good alternative to sex

Sanger had negative views on masturbation, especially as a compulsive behavior. She wrote that some of the most troubled people she met were hooked on masturbation.

1. genocide
   controlled breeding
2. DNA manipulation

In the 1920s and 30s, the concept of eugenics (controlled breeding) caught on in many places around the world, particularly in Germany. The idea was to have the most "fit" people in society reproduce while limiting the ability of "unfit" people to have children.

1. voluntary birth control
   abortion
2. selective breeding

Her biggest concern was one of simple control. The idea was that no woman should be forced to endure an unwanted pregnancy.

1. true
2. false

She was more aligned with what was called negative eugenics, the idea of reducing the likelihood that "unfit" people would reproduce, a fact that was meant to improve heredity and health for society's benefit.

1. true
2. false

In a time when many people were very uncomfortable with homosexuality, Sanger was OK with the concept. She realized that homosexuals were simply different than heterosexuals.

1. hated children
   illegal abortions
2. her mother's early death

As a nurse, Sanger frequently treated women who endured the repercussions of illegal back-alley abortions. Sanger felt it would be better to prevent pregnancies in the first place rather than resort to barbaric abortion techniques.

1. was a white supremacist
   husband was a closet Nazi
2. was a political ploy

The eugenics movement of the 20s and 30s gained traction at the same time that Sanger was touting the benefits of family planning. She intentionally rode the eugenics wave in part because she thought it would help forward her own ideas about birth control.

1. zero times
   two times
2. at least eight times

Sanger was arrested at least eight times during her life. She was not afraid to confront the status quo regarding women's rights (or the lack thereof).

1. true
2. false

Many famous people of her era, from Teddy Roosevelt to H.G. Wells, believed that selective breeding might be a benefit to humanity. Only a few (cough, Germany) really cared about the idea of eliminating certain classes of people.

1. used lots of esoteric terms
   was very straightforward
2. beat around the bushes

Sanger was very direct -- and not at all shy -- in sharing her beliefs and value system. It's one reason why she was constantly targeted by those who opposed her ideas.

1. because they were taking over cities
   because they were poorest
2. she was a racist

Minority communities in the cities then (and now) were often poor and suffered from a lack of sex education. Sanger hoped to give those communities more control over their own lives by limiting unwanted pregnancies.

1. true
2. false

Sanger never sided with Nazi Germany's ideas about eugenics. She believed that individuals, not the state, should control reproductive rights.

1. U.S. Family Planning Agency
   American Birth Control League
2. The Choice Club

She helped to create the American Birth Control League. She was also president of the league for more than half a decade.

1. thought she was right
   condemned her
2. told people she was a racist

In the late 1960s, King aligned himself with Sanger's research. He credited her with doing good work for the black community and also for finding a way to fight the establishment.

1. true
2. false

She actually did speak during a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan. She wasn't there to condemn black people, though. She simply saw it as an opportunity to chat about birth control.

1. children
   degenerates
2. morons

Sanger wasn’t exactly blown away by the intelligence of the women involved with the KKK. She later called them children because they had such glib views of the world.

1. true
2. false

She never won a Nobel Prize. However, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize thanks to her lifetime of work for women's rights.

1. heart failure
   murder
2. an "accident"

Sanger died of heart failure in 1966. She 86 years old.

1. true
2. false

Sanger was sometimes ineloquent in her descriptions of birth control. But she did not want the government to enforce any sort of compulsive sterilization program.

1. six years later
   12 years later
2. two years later

Six years after her death, Roe v. Wade helped to legalize abortion. Sanger's crusade against back-alley abortions ended in a victory for her concepts regarding women's rights.