Hidden Figures Prologue & Ch. 1

Where did the author grow up?

• Hampton, Virginia

• Charlotte, North Carolina

• Richmond, Virginia

• Washington, DC

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What is the title of chapter 1?

• A New Beginning

• Breaking Barriers

• Setting the Scene

• The Duration

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Why did the grandfather tell the author's dad to become a Physical Education teacher?

• Most college-educated African Americans took teaching jobs.

• He thought her dad would have trouble finding work as an engineer.

• He thought her dad liked Physical Education.

• He thought her dad was a computer.

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What jobs did most college-educated African Americans take?

• Teaching jobs

• Post Office Jobs

• Engineering Jobs

• Principal Jobs

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Which Hidden Figure was the first to be promoted into a management position at NACA?

• Christine Darden

• Katherine Johnson

• Mary Jackson

• Dorothy Vaughn

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Which Hidden Figure was the first African-American woman to move up the ranks and become an engineer at the NACA?

• Christine Darden

• Mary Jackson

• Dorothy Vaughn

• Katherine Johnson

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Which Hidden Figure's groundbreaking research, on predicting sonic booms, is still being used today?

• Katherine Johnson

• Mary Jackson

• Christine Darden

• Dorothy Vaughn

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Which Hidden Figure was a dreamer and an independent thinker who was unafraid to imagine what others considered to be impossible; and helped do the math that was required to send the first men into space?

• Mary Jackson

• Christine Darden

• Katherine Johnson

• Dorothy Vaughn

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The mathematicians that worked at Langley Research Center were also know as

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After the Civil War, the government passed laws that ended slavery and granted full citizenship and voting rights to

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