Hidden Figures Bend Two Quiz

What happened in 1945 on V-J Day that caused a "decrease for women workers, both white and colored?"

• World War 2 ended

• The government passed new labor laws

• Women started applying to colleges across the country

• Women began fighting overseas in the war

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Women who worked closely on research reports with male engineers always got their names added to the final publication

• true

• false

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After spending 2 years standing in for the role, Dorothy Vaughan is eventually officially promoted to which position?

• Astronaut

• Secretary to the President of NASA

• Section Head of the West Area Computers

• Lead Engineer on her own project

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NACA is determined to create better and faster planes in order to compete with which country?

• Russia

• China

• England

• India

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The Rosenberg Trial resulted in a death sentence for a couple who were accused of spying for the Russians. What fear does this create in Americans?

• Russia was going to invade soon

• America was running out of money

• American government was corrupt

• Anyone around them could be a spy

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In chapter 11, Mary Jackson runs into the assistant section head at one of the Supersonic Pressure Tunnels. After ranting about the treatment she receives from some of the white women at NACA, he offers her what?

• A cookie

• A meeting with the president of NACA

• A new job at his tunnel

• An apology

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Dorothy Hoover and at least three other women working in West Computing published their own research reports between 1947 and 1951

• true

• false

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Mary Jackson chooses to stand by her calculations even when the Division Chief tells her that her work must be wrong.

• true

• false

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Katherine Goble was a gifted mathematician who was accepted as one of three black students attending West Virginia University. Why does she end up leaving the program?

• She was pregnant and starting a family

• The classes were too hard

• She was kicked out of the school for being black

• She was moving to another country

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As Katherine Goble sits at her desk in her new position, a man gives her a strange look and gets up to walk away from her. List one of the reasons that Katherine gives for his behavior.

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