Hidden Figures_Movie Quiz

In the opening scene, Katherine’s parents are entering her into a collegiate school inwhat state?

• Mississippi

• West Virginia

• Oklahoma

• Alabama

At the beginning ofthe movie the ladies’ car breaks down, how do they make it to work at NASA?

• They take a bus.

• They ride in a police car.

• They fix the car themselves and are escorted by a policeman.

• They hitchhike.

In the beginning of the movie, Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy work for NASA as

• Teachers

• Secretaries

• Researchers

• Computers

What country beat the USA to putting a satellite in space orbiting the earth?

• China

• Germany

• England

• Russia

IBM stands for

• International Business Machines

• Institute for Beta Mathematics

• Inventory Business Men

• None of these

What type of mathematics does NASA need Katherine to perform

• Calculus

• Analytic geometry

• Algebra

• Trigonometry

Mary is assigned to work with

• the engineers on the capsule.

• The mathematicians on the trajectory

• The chemists on the rocket fuel

• No one. She is let go.

Mr. Harrison asks Katherine to check the math of the men of the Space Task Group at NASAbecause

• Heat shields keep flying off the NASA capsule.

• He wants to give her busy work

• He is testing her.

• He wants to get her fired.

Dorothy is upset because

• She does all the work of a supervisor without the pay

• She has to drive to far to work

• She wants to be an engineer

• She wanted the job Katherine got doing analytic geometry

Which of the three women is the computer scientist?

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