Assessment: Chapter 1 — The Space Race

The invention shown in the photograph was important to the development of what technology?

• flight

• Internet

• smartphone

• television

What was the first type of airplane engine used?

• jet engine

• rocket engine

• propeller engine

• gas-powered engine

What were the effects of the launch of Sputnik? Select the two correct answers.

• A human-made object orbited Earth.

• A person traveled to space for the first time.

• American scientists discovered new technologies.

• The Soviet Union was surprised by American progress.

• It seemed the United States was losing the Space Race.

What was the United States the first country to accomplish?

• landing a person on Mars

• sending a person into space

• sending an object into space

• landing a person on the moon

What was notable about the object shown in the image?

• It could be used only once.

• It could not leave Earth’s atmosphere.

• It could withstand the harsh conditions of space.

• It could spy on other countries during the Cold War.

Which scientific breakthrough was aided by the vehicle in the photograph?

• the landing of people on the moon

• the invention of computers and the Internet

• the discovery that Mars once had areas of water

• the ability to communicate instantaneously across oceans

Which is the main use of the vehicle in the picture?

• defense

• medicine

• exploration

• transportation

What work did Katherine Johnson do for NASA?

• She was a computer.

• She was an astronaut.

• She was a lab technician.

• She was an aerospace scientist.

What was this woman the first to do?

• She was the first American woman to work for NASA.

• She was the first American woman to travel into space.

• She was the first American woman to land on the moon.

• She was the first American woman to pilot a rover to Mars.

Use the excerpt to answer the question. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. . . .

• He gave it in front of a large group of people.

• He was not willing to listen to others’ viewpoints.

• He promised something that seemed impossible.

• He would not accept that people did not want to listen to him.