Hidden Figures Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Margot Lee Shetterly
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Hidden Figures Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Margot Lee Shetterly
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What laws were being used in an attempt to dismantle black communities after World War II ended?
(a) Federal housing approval laws.
(b) Wartime temporary housing laws.
(c) Segregation laws.
(d) Slum clearance laws.

2. What was Shetterly's father's job at Langley?
(a) He was a climate scientist.
(b) He was a custodian.
(c) He was an engineer.
(d) He was a mathematician.

3. What did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?
(a) Unmanned aircrafts.
(b) Ground models.
(c) Wind tunnels.
(d) Computer simulations.

4. What song did Mary Jackson tell her Girl Scouts that they would never sing again after she thought about the stereotypes the song promoted?
(a) Pick a Bale of Cotton.
(b) Early in the Mornin'.
(c) No More My Lawd.
(d) Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

5. How much did Dorothy Vaughan pay for her housing when she first started working at Langley?
(a) Nothing.
(b) $50 per month.
(c) $5 per week.
(d) $10 per week.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?

2. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?

3. Who was the head computer when Langley began hiring black women?

4. Who was the singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?

5. In what year did the first female computing pool begin working at Langley?

(see the answer key)

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