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WorksheetsHidden Figures Prologue & Ch. 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
Where did the author grow up?
Hampton, Virginia
Charlotte, North Carolina
Richmond, Virginia
Washington, DC
What is the title of chapter 1?
A New Beginning
Breaking Barriers
Setting the Scene
The Duration
Why did the grandfather tell the author's dad to become a Physical Education teacher?
Most college-educated African Americans took teaching jobs.
He thought her dad would have trouble finding work as an engineer.
He thought her dad liked Physical Education.
He thought her dad was a computer.
What jobs did most college-educated African Americans take?
Teaching jobs
Post Office Jobs
Engineering Jobs
Principal Jobs
Which Hidden Figure was the first to be promoted into a management position at NACA?
Christine Darden
Katherine Johnson
Mary Jackson
Dorothy Vaughn
Which Hidden Figure was the first African-American woman to move up the ranks and become an engineer at the NACA?
Christine Darden
Mary Jackson
Dorothy Vaughn
Katherine Johnson
Which Hidden Figure's groundbreaking research, on predicting sonic booms, is still being used today?
Katherine Johnson
Mary Jackson
Christine Darden
Dorothy Vaughn
Which Hidden Figure was a dreamer and an independent thinker who was unafraid to imagine what others considered to be impossible; and helped do the math that was required to send the first men into space?
Mary Jackson
Christine Darden
Katherine Johnson
Dorothy Vaughn
The mathematicians that worked at Langley Research Center were also know as
(a)
After the Civil War, the government passed laws that ended slavery and granted full citizenship and voting rights to
(a)
