Hidden Figures ch. 18-20

What was Virginia's "embarrassing reputation"?

• opposing school integration

• not being chosen as a NASA location.

• poorest state in the union

• fewest college graduates

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What did Katherine have to consider regarding orbital flight when calculating flight trajectories?

• Earth's shape and rotational speed.

• Earth's shape and wind speed

• Earth's rotational speed and the sun's position.

• Earth's rotational speed and moon's orbital path

How did Mary Jackson spend her summer during 1960?

• Building a soap box derby car

• Building a supersonic airplane

• Building a satellite comparable to Sputnik

• Studying equations to launch a rocket into outer space

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What did Levi accredit his soap box derby victory to?

• the lack of friction in his tires

• the fuel that his machine used

• the slimness of his machine

• the weight of his machine

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Mary Jackson believed that achievement worked like a _____________.

• library

• grocery store

• bank account

• basketball game

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Who were the "Greensboro Four?"

• Four students who sat in the whites-only section of the lunch counter at a local drug store and started a nonviolent protest.

• Four students who marched the streets of Greensboro, North Carolina.

• Four students who worked in the Space Task Group.

• Four students who started a violent protest and were thrown in jail.

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Dorothy reinvented herself as a

• mathematician

• computer programmer

• stay at home wife and mother

• engineer

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Where did NASA establish a 3rd computer data center?

• Hampton

• Bermuda

• Washington D.C.

• New York

Christine Mann participated in what form civil rights protest?

• sit-in

• freedom ride

• bus boycott

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CCSS.RL.8.9

Project Mercury's flight director said "we could have beaten them. We should have beaten them" in response to...

• the first man orbiting Earth

• Sputnik

• Sputnik II

• The Soviet Union sending animals into orbit.

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