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WorksheetsHidden Figures Ch 22
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What year was the US Department of Labor brochure issued that stated 'America is for everybody'?
1963
1973
1983
1953
Who were described in the brochure as having made social and economic progress since the end of slavery?
African-Americans
Immigrants
Women
Young adults
Which civil rights leader planned the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
Malcolm X
A. Philip Randolph
Rosa Parks
Frederick Douglass
What was the defining moment of the March on Washington?
The signing of a bill
A concert
A sit-in
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech
Who was acknowledged for 20 years of service to the federal government at Langley?
Catherine Johnson
Christine Darden
Dorothy Vaughan
Mary Jackson
How many African-American employees were categorized as engineers at Langley in the early 1960s?
15
20
5
10
What was the main reason given for the lack of African-American applicants for science and engineering positions at Langley?
Lack of qualifications
Unfavorable living conditions
Transportation issues
Lack of interest
Who completed their master's degree program at Virginia State University?
Mary Jackson
Dorothy Vaughan
Christine Darden
Catherine Johnson
What tragic event shook NASA to its core in January 1967?
The Challenger explosion
The Mars Rover failure
The Apollo 1 fire
The Columbia disaster
What was the risk standard set by the space task group for the space missions?
85%
99.9%
95%
90%
