Grace Hopper Quiz

When was Grace Hopper Born

• December 9, 1906

• December 9, 2020

• January 1, 1999

• February 29, 1888

What jobs did Grace Hopper have?

• U.S. Navy

• Pilot

• Teacher

• Computer Programmer

How did Grace Hopper impact the world?

• Hopper was involved in the creation of the first all-electronic digital computer.

• Hopper was one of the first female programmers who also worked as a mathematician.

• Hopper was a pilot in World War II where she stood as a symbol to all future female pilots.

• Hopper was discriminated against because she was a woman in the 1900s.

How does the alarm clock in paragraph 2 contribute to the biography? "As a child, she took apart seven alarm clocks before her mother realized her daughter would not stop until she figured out how they worked."

• It proves that Hopper was curious about technology from a young age

• It shows Hopper's intelligence was misunderstood when she was younger.

• It portrays Hopper as a destructive child outlining a repeated offense occurring at home.

• It shows that Hopper's mother encouraged her to pursue her passions.

Which of these is one of Grace Hopper's quotes?

• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

• Always be happy

• The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

• Life itself is the most wonderous fairy tale.

Did Grace Hopper invent the computer?

• Yes

• No

Hopper is credited with coining which commonly used computer term?

• “bug” and “de-bug” as related to computer errors.

• "FORTRAN" a high-level computer programming language used especially for scientific computation.

• "Binary Code" a series of 1's and 0's.

• "Univac" the name for a computer that she and a team worked on.

Which piece of evidence below best shows how Hopper's gender impacted her career?

• "Hopper also said, 'Women turn out to be very good programmers for one very good reason. They tend to finish up things, and men don't very often finish.'" Paragraph 4

• "One of the first female programmers, Grace Hopper also worked as a mathematician and had an unusual career for women in the 1900s." Paragraph 1.

• "Not only did Hopper do well, as the third person to program the Mark I, and the first woman, she also did more." Paragraph 13

• "When the US entered World War II, Grace Hopper eagerly tried to join." AND "However, to the US Navy, Hopper was too old at age 36 and 15 pounds under the minimum weight of 115 pounds. Plus she was a woman." Paragraph 8 and 9

In the context of the text, what were the benefits of Hopper's contributions to technology today?

• Hopper wrote the first technical documentation of how to operate a computer in a 500 page book describing how to use a computer.

• Grace Hopper both contributed to math and science because her mother enjoyed mathematics and her father worked as an insurance broker.

• One benefit Hopper created was the ideology that women could not only work in technology but do better than men at their jobs.

• One benefit Hopper brought to technology was from her focus on allowing all scientists and non-scientists access to computers as well as helping build the first digital computers created access for all.

Hopper is given credit for common sense ideas. Which idea below came from Hopper?

• Hopper wrote the firing tables as a set of instructions translated into binary code, zeros and ones.

• That they didn't need bigger computers, they needed more computers to create a system of machines capable of doing massive jobs.

• That women could do bigger jobs than men. They could think faster and harder, and would always finish the job that men surely couldn't and wouldn't.

• She developed the first software compiler to translate high level programming code into machine code computers could understand.