Hidden Figures Prologue & Ch. 1

Where did the author grow up?

• Hampton, Virginia

• Charlotte, North Carolina

• Richmond, Virginia

• Washington, DC

What is the title of chapter 1?

• A New Beginning

• Breaking Barriers

• Setting the Scene

• The Duration

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.

What jobs did most college-educated African Americans take?

• Teaching jobs

• Post Office Jobs

• Engineering Jobs

• Principal Jobs

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

• Christine Darden

• Katherine Johnson

• Mary Jackson

• Dorothy Vaughn

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

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

• Katherine Johnson

• Mary Jackson

• Christine Darden

• Dorothy Vaughn

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

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

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