Quiz: from Hidden Figures

"From Hidden Figures" is from what genre?

• short story

• play

• fiction

• history writing

What event caused women to obtain jobs they never could have before?

• alien invasion

• World War I

• World War II

• the world stopped discriminating against women in the workforce

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a goal to increase the production of _____________.

• trains

• cars

• airplanes

• buses

Female mathematicians proved that they were just as good or even better at ________________ as the male engineers.

• reading

• computing

• maneuvering

• mathing

Who encouraged the President to hire African Americans when they couldn't satisfy the demand for human computers with only white employees?

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• A. Phillip Randolph

• Malcolm X

• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Definition of assess

• to make a series of controlled movements

• to determine the qualities or abilities of something

• to create in a controlled setting conditions similar to those a person or machine might face in the real world

• analyze, or understanding something by breaking it down into parts

Definition of analytical

• to make a series of controlled movements

• to determine the qualities or abilities of something

• to create in a controlled setting conditions similar to those a person or machine might face in the real world

• analyze, or understanding something by breaking it down into parts

Definition of simulate

• to make a series of controlled movements

• to determine the qualities or abilities of something

• to create in a controlled setting conditions similar to those a person or machine might face in the real world

• analyze, or understanding something by breaking it down into parts

Definition of maneuver

• to make a series of controlled movements

• to determine the qualities or abilities of something

• to create in a controlled setting conditions similar to those a person or machine might face in the real world

• analyze, or understanding something by breaking it down into parts

Create your own sentence using the vocabulary word maneuver correctly (3 points).

Use a participle phrase in your sentence to get the full five points.