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WorksheetsHidden Figures_Mireia Navarro Rodríguez
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
Which of the "Hidden Figures" was the first black woman to earn an engineering degree from the University of Virginia?
Katherine Johnson
Dorothy Vaughan
Christine Darden
Mary Jackson
Which of the "Hidden Figures" calculated the trajectories for the spaceflights of Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth?
Dorothy Vaughan
Michelle Obama
Katherine Johnson
Valentina Tereshkova
Which of the following women was the inspiration for the book and movie "Hidden Figures"?
Katherine Johnson
Dorothy Vaughan
Mary Jackson
All of the above
What was the name of the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, whose flight was made possible by the work of Katherine Johnson?
Buzz Aldrin
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
Alan Shepard
Which of the following women was a teacher before joining NASA as a mathematician?
All of them are correct
Dorothy Vaughan
Mary Jackson
Katherine Johnson
What was the primary focus of Mary Jackson's work at NASA?
Human spaceflight
Trajectory calculations
Wind tunnel testing
Rocket fuel
What was the name of the computer program developed by Dorothy Vaughan to improve efficiency and accuracy in NASA's computations?
FORTRAN
The Electronic Computer Program
IBM 704
COBOL
Which of the following women was the first African American supervisor at NASA?
Mary Jackson
Katherine Jackson
Dorothy Vaughan
All of the above
