"Hidden Figures" StudySync Quiz

The excerpt from Hidden Figures is told in ____ tense, from a _______ point of view.

• present; first-person

• present; third-person

• past; first-person

• past; third-person

Which of the following best describes the mission of the X-1 aircraft?

• To fly faster than the speed of sound

• To put an aircraft into outer space

• To put a man on the moon

• To fly at the speed of light

Answer explanation

The excerpt describes the X-1 aircraft on its “record-breaking flight” as it exceeded “Mach 1,” or the speed of sound.

Which of the following selections best describes Chuck Yeager’s role in the X-1 flight?

• Yeager was one of the “computers” working to break the sound barrier.

• Yeager was a team leader of engineers moved from the Langley laboratories to the Mojave Desert

• Yeager piloted the X-1, the plane that broke the sound barrier

• Yeager did not participate in the X-1 flight.

Answer explanation

The excerpt states that Yeager “flew over the Mojave Desert in an NACA-developed experimental research plane called the Bell X-1.” Yeager was the pilot, not a “computer.”

What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraph 1)? MS-ELA: MS.RI.7.2

Men often came to the laboratory as junior engineers and were allowed to design and conduct their own experiments. Researchers took the men under their wings, teaching them the ropes. Women, on the other hand, had to work much harder to overcome other people’s low expectations. A woman who worked in the central computing pool was one step removed from the research, and the engineers’ assignments sometimes lacked the context to give the computer much knowledge about the project.

• Some researchers were better than others at communicating their needs

• Women in laboratories did not receive the same privileges as men

• Men and women typically choose different career paths.

• Researchers in laboratories had no way of knowing which engineers would succeed.

Which sentence most strongly suggests the central idea in the previous passage?

• “Men often came to the laboratory as junior engineers and were allowed to design and conduct their own experiments.”

• “Researchers took the men under their wings, teaching them the ropes.”

• “Women, on the other hand, had to work much harder to overcome other people’s low expectations.”

• D. “A woman who worked in the central computing pool was one step removed from the research, and the engineers’ assignments sometimes lacked the context to give the computer much knowledge about the project.

Which definition of computer most closely fits the word as it is used in the passage?

• noun | a person making calculations

• noun | a machine for processing data

• noun | desktop terminal

• noun | a device that can access the Internet

Answer explanation

This was the word for the people who analyzed and processed data BEFORE it could be done by machines.

Why do you think it is important for us to learn about these women, Dorothy Vaughn and Dorothy Hoover, and the things they contributed to our Space Force?