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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition Chapter 1

Quiz by Bobbi Lamberth

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  • Q1

    Many women were hired to be 'computers' at NASA. What does that mean?

    They worked on the spacecrafts. 

    They fixed the broken computers.

    They worked as mathematicians for the government's air and space program.

    They ran the new computers.

    30s
  • Q2

    What does aeronautics mean?

    the study of arithmetic.

    the study of the science and technology of flight.

    the study of air.

    the study of geometric shapes.

    30s
  • Q3

    Who was the first of the four women to be promoted into a management position?

    Mary Jackson

    Katherine Johnson

    Dorothy Vaughan

    Christine Darden

    30s
  • Q4

    Which of the four women helped make supersonic aircraft fly higher and faster?

    Mary Jackson

    Katherin Johnson

    Christine Darden

    Dorothy Vaughan

    30s
  • Q5

    Which of the four women was essential in putting the first American in orbit around the Earth?

    Katherine Johnson

    Christine Darden

    Dorothy Vaughan

    Mary Jackson

    30s
  • Q6

    Whose groundbreaking research on predicting sonic booms is still used today?

    Dorothy Vaughan

    Christine Darden

    Mary Jackson

    Katherine Johnson

    30s

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