Hidden Figures

What are the names of the three women?

• Dorothy

• All of the above

• Mary

• Katherine

What operations did engineers at Langley Memorial Laboratory

• wind tunnels

• wind operators

• wind simulator

• wind

What were "computers"

• black women

• women who made computations of raw data

• an electronic device

Even though job recruiters weren't supposed to consider a person's race when hiring, what gave it away?

• The picture of the resume

• The university they went to

• By looking at the person

• The way they speaked

During the 1940s, women were able to get jobs for the first time in many industries. What event caused that to happen? 

• Because World War II was happening and most of the men were at war.

• Because they thought men were lazy.

Who placed the 1940s ads

• Langley Memorial Areonatical Laboraty

• National Adversory Committee for Aeronautics

• Engineers

• job recruiter

Which is the best description of the author’s organizational structure?

• She first describes the job of a computer and then other jobs available at Langley.

• She uses chronological order to discuss key events between 1935 and 1945.

• She begins the narrative in the present day and traces key events back to 1945.

• She skips around in time to explain key events and provide historical background.

Jim Crow laws are

• the blacks laws

• racism

• the law that separated whites and blacks

• segregation

The “WANTED: Female Mathematicians” section of the text helps readers predict that —

• the lab will continue to include women in its workforce

• after the war ends the need for computers will end and the women will be fired

• segregation of white and black employees will continue despite changes in society

• black female computers will dominate the field of computing for several decades

Which detail from the selection best reveals how important the mission President Roosevelt gave the NACA was?

• African Americans were assigned to work in a separate area from white people.

• Women were classified as “subprofessionals.”

• African Americans were hired for positions typically only held by white people.

• Women had been working at Langley since 1937.