WorksheetsHidden Figures Chapters 9 and 10
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
On page 65, what was the title of Chapter 9?
Breaking Barriers
West Computing began a summertime tradition, for Dorothy and her extended family of going on vacation to ... where? pg.66
Log Cabin Beach
How much money, a year, did Dorothy earn working as a computer? pg.66
$3,000
$2,400
$9,000
$7,000
According to this sentence on pg. 66, 'Dorothy was frugal', what does frugal mean?
On pg.74, what tragic incident left Dorothy's computing pool without a leader?
nervous breakdown of her supervisor
On pg. 74, when was Dorothy's promotion made official?
June 2020
January 1951
July 1944
What is the title of Chapter 10? pg. 76
Chapter 10: No Limits
At the bottom of pg. 77, what does Mary's choice for a wedding dress, tell us about her personality?
Mary's choice for a wedding dress can reveals that she 'did things her own way'.
At the top of pg. 79, why did Mary stop her girl scout troop from singing "Pick a Bale of Cotton"?
The song has racist origins and lyrics, and she did not want to keep that idea alive.
What caused the NACA to start hiring people again after WWII? pg. 80
'the Russians expended at least 3x the man power in their research establishments'
On pg. 81, what had NACA successfully done?
Broken the sound barrier
According to pg 83, what were the two people in the picture accused of doing?
The two people in the picture were accused of spying for the Soviet Union.
On pg 84, what did President Truman do to prove that American was trying to be more fair to people with dark skin?
