The Hidden Figures Text Set Quiz

Read the sentences.

“However, she had to fight for her education because, at the time, schools were still segregated. She needed special engineering classes to qualify for a promotion, but the classes were only offered at an all-white school.”

What does segregated mean in the sentence?

• declining

• combined

• more than one school

• set apart

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Read the sentence.

“The Hidden Figures were brilliant mathematicians that helped NASA make progress in sending astronauts into space.”

Think about the Latin root -gress. What is the meaning of progress as it is used in the sentence?

• Slowly moving

• Making steps forward

• To send astronauts

• To learn more

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How does the author develop the purpose of Passage 1?

• By explaining the roles of three important Black American women who worked as mathematicians for NASA.

• To describe how women can do any job they choose.

• By telling readers how you can work for NASA.

• By showing how NASA chose three brilliant mathematician women to work for them.

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Which two sentences are important to include in a summary of Passage 1?

• Katherine Johnson was one of the Hidden Figures that helped John Glenn’s mission to orbit the Earth.

• The Hidden Figures, a group of brilliant Black American women mathematicians, played a huge role in America’s success in space.

• The women used their math and science skills to solve difficult problems that no one else could, yet they weren’t given the credit they deserved at the time, faced hardship and discrimination.

• There was a movie made about them.

• John Glenn didn’t fully trust the calculations that the electronic computers came up with.

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In Passage 2, Katherine Johnson makes a comment “it was never work to me” (paragraph 5). What inference can be made about her statement?

• Katherine didn’t get paid enough for the hard work she did.

• Katherine thought her job was too easy and wanted more of a challenge.

• Katherine’s work came naturally to her, and she enjoyed it.

• Katherine felt she had others to share the workload with.

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Read the sentences.

“AARP: Hidden FIgures has scenes about you and John Glenn, the first astronaut to fly around the Earth. Were they accurate or just Hollywood embellishment?” (paragraph 5)

What is the meaning of embellishment in the sentence?

• A. Creativity

• B. Exaggeration

• C. Decoration

• D. Colorful

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Based on Passage 1 and the timeline, why did Mary Jackson have to fight for her education?

• Mary needed to qualify for a promotion, to make better money and experience a better role.

• School segregation was still permitted, making it difficult for Mary to gain access to the classes she needed.

• Mary wanted to make a difference in the lives of young women and minorities.

• Mary wasn’t allowed to graduate until she had taken more classes.

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Part A: What is the central idea of paragraph 3, Passage 1?

• Dorothy Vaughan learned computer programming.

• Dorothy Vaughan was a brilliant mathematician who played a critical role in teaching other Black women programming, thereby helping them stay valuable to NASA.

• Dorothy Vaughan started out at NASA doing complex math by hand.

• Dorothy Vaughan foresaw computers changing everything.

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Part B: What evidence from the text best supports your answer to Part A?

• “Dorothy Vaughan was another brilliant woman who worked at NASA.” (paragraph 3)

• “The Hidden Figures played a huge role in America’s success in space.” (paragraph 5)

• “She also taught other black women how to program, helping them stay valuable to NASA as technology advanced.” (paragraph 3)

• “She started as a human computer, doing complex math by hand.” (paragraph 3)

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Part A: Why did the author include the timeline in Passage 3?

• To show the reader important events in the order they happened, in relation to the passages.

• To allow the reader to see what the people looked like, in relation to the passages.

• To show the reader that John Glenn and Yuri Gagarin had to wear space helmets.

• To allow the reader to see that Neil Armstrong put a flag on the moon.

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