Assistive feeding device (WWII rehabilitation): Identify the African-American woman inventor and physical therapist. Full question: This African-American woman physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in World War II. She invented a device that helped the disabled to eat by delivering food through a tube to a mouthpiece. Who is she? Choose the correct option.

Difficulty: Easy

Bessie Blount Griffin
Annie Malone
Madam C. J. Walker
Sarah Goode

Correct Answer: Bessie Blount Griffin

Explanation:

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Bessie Blount Griffin: African-American physical therapist and inventor who worked with WWII amputees and devised an assistive feeding device that delivered food through a tube to a mouthpiece.

Why the other options are incorrect
Annie Malone / Madam C. J. Walker — Pioneers in hair-care entrepreneurship. Sarah Goode — Early African-American woman patent holder (folding cabinet bed).

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