Hidden Figures: Chapters 10-13 Quiz

What does Mary Jackson decide to wear on her wedding day?

• a traditional wedding dress
• a red dress and black veil
• a white dress with black sequins and accessories
• she never got married

Why did Mary want the Girl Scout Troops to stop singing "Pick a Bale of Cotton"?

• they sounded terrible
• Mary didn't know the song
• it encouraged the idea of slavery

What was the new wind tunnel called that could produce winds up to a Mach 7? (Faster than the speed of sound)

• hydromatic, systematic, ultramatic
• Grease lightning
• hypersonic

Which president desegregated the military?

• Harry S. Truman
• Joe Biden
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ms. Brewen

When Mary Jackson was sent to the East Side offices, what enraged (angered) her?

• her white coworkers giggled and wouldn't tell her where the "colored" restrooms where
• her boss fired her because she was rude to her white coworkers
• she was not allowed on the East Side because she was black

What happened as a result of Mary ranting to the assistant section head of SPT (Supersonic Pressure Tunnels)?

• She was fired
• She was told to head back to West Computing
• He offered her a position at SPT

Where was Katherine sent to work when she arrived to the West Computing office?

• school
• Flight Research Division
• East Computing office
• NASA

Who did Katherine inherit her love of numbers and mathematics from?

• mom
• dad
• brother
• sister

What was Katherine keeping a secret in order to remain a teacher?

• that she was pregnant
• that she was from West Virginia
• that she didn't actually know what she was doing
• that she was married

The research done by Katherine and the engineers lead to changes in:

• air traffic regulations
• the sky
• hypersonic tunnels