WorksheetsHidden Figures Chapters 1-2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were all skilled in___________________ .
science
math
social studies
What does NACA stand for?
National Adult Cooking Association
National Astronaut Committee Association
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Who was the first of the group to promote to a manager position at NACA?
Dorothy Vaughan
Mary Jackson
Who was the first one of the four women to move up the ranks and become and engineer at the NACA?
Katherine Johnson
Mary Jackson
This member of the famous four was an essential member on the team that put the first American in orbit around Earth.
Christine Darden
Katherine Johnson
This woman was one of the world's leading experts on supersonic flight.
Christine Darden
Mary Jackson
World War____ was an opportunity to make a better life for many African Americans. Black men were able enlist in the military in large numbers and the women were finding more work because so many men were out fighting in the war.
I
II
V
What president believed in the importance of air power?
George Bush
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Barack Obama
What were the female mathematicians called at Langley?
robots
computers
calculators
Did the African American mathematicians work in the same space as everyone else at Langley?
no
yes
