Hidden Figures - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

What are the names of the three women?

Dorothy

All of the above

Mary

Katherine

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

What operations did engineers at Langley Memorial Laboratory

wind tunnels

wind operators

wind simulator

wind

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

What were "computers"

black women

women who made computations of raw data

an electronic device

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

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

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

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.

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

Who placed the 1940s ads

Langley Memorial Areonatical Laboraty

National Adversory Committee for Aeronautics

Engineers

job recruiter

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

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.

8.

Multiple Select

45 sec

5 pts

Jim Crow laws are

the blacks laws

racism

the law that separated whites and blacks

segregation

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

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

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

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.

11.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

5 pts

Do you think NASA was a socially progressive organization in 1961? Why or why not?

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