Hidden Figures Ch 10-12

Who did Mary Winston Jackson work for?

• Dorothy Vaughan

• Margot Lee Shetterly

• Katherine Johnson

• Christine Darden

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What sorority did Mary Jackson join in college?

• Delta Sigma Theta

• Pi Beta Phi

• Alpha Kappa Alpha

• Delta Zeta

While leading a Girl Scout troop, Mary Jackson and the girls sang " Pick a Bale of Cotton." What upset Mary about the song?

• The song did made slavery sound much worse than Mary thought it was.

• The song lyrics included curse words.

• The song reinforced all the worst stereotypes about what it meant to be black.

• Mary did not like the writer of the song.

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Following World War 2, what did the United States become anxious about?

• The threat posed by the Soviet Union

• The threat posed by Japan

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• The return of slavery in the United States

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Why were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg sentenced to death?

• The strongly believed in segregation.

• They attacked Langley.

• They attacked Martin Luther King Jr.

• They were Russian spies.

How did President Harry S. Truman deal with Communism?

• He decided the United States would be a communist country instead of a democracy.

• He wanted to show that the United States' version of democracy was the best system in the world, encouraging developing countries to become American allies.

• He started World War 3 to eradicate communism.

• He teamed up with the Soviet Union.

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What is a theoretical engineer?

• Someone who designs aircraft based on experiments and testing.

• Someone who teaches others to think for themselves.

• Someone who is in charge of many teams at Langley Memorial.

• Someone who works with numbers and papers, designing aircraft based on ideas or theories, rather than using experiments and testing.

Who told Katherine Goble that the government was hiring black women to work as mathematicians at Langley?

• Mary Jackson

• her husband's brother-in-law

• her sister

• her aunt

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What assignment did Katherine receive that felt like "good fortune?"

• Flight Research Division

• West Computing

• Newsome Park

• laundry service

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