Hidden Figures Chapters 8-14 Review

What was key to managing the complex nature of aeronautical research in the postwar era?

• Hiring more general computers

• Hiring more men

• Specialization

• Having better dat

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Who did Mary Winston Jackson work for?

• Dorothy Vaughan

• Katherine Johnson

• an engineer

• Christine Darden

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While leading a Girl Scout troop, Mary Jackson and the girls sand "Pick a Bale of Cotton." What upset Mary about the song?

• The song lyrics included curse words.

• The song made slavery sound much worse than Mary thought it was.

• Mary did not like the writer of the song.

• The song reinforced all the worst stereotypes about what it meant to be black.

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Following World War 2, what did the United States become anxious about?

• The threat posed by the Soviet Union

• The threat posed by Japan.

• The return of slavery in the United States.

• The United States going into a recession.

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Why were the names of the women who worked on projects not published?

• The women did not want to be identified.

• The engineers assumed it didn't matter; many of the men didn't realize that women could have the same ambitions as men.

• The women were not as important because they were not engineers.

• Women didn't work on important projects.

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Who was the first African-American woman assigned a management role at Langley?

• Michelle Obama

• Mary Jackson

• Dorothy Vaughan

• Christine Darden

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What assignment did Katherine receive that felt like "good fortune?"

• Flight Research Division

• West Computing

• Newsome Park

• laundry service

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Why did the Rosenberg trial in New York spark fears inside the United States

• It made people believe that there were Russian Spies living amongst us here in the United States.

• It reinforced the Jim Crow Laws in the Northern states.

• It mean that the United States was going to aggressively convict those sympathizers to the Negro Cause.

• Because the Rosenbergs were key figures at NACA, it meant that NACA might not be able to survive long term.

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What was executive order 9981 and which president signed it?

• President Woodrow Wilson and ended segregation in Public Schools

• President Truman and it signified the start of WWII

• President Roosevelt and it ended segregation in the military

• President Eisenhower and called for the integration of the public school

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Which of the black computers math withstood scrutiny from her boss when it was stated that the numbers of her calculations were incorrect?

• Mary Jackson

• Dorothy Vaughn

• Dorothy Hoover

• Doris Cohen

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