Hidden Figures Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Margot Lee Shetterly
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Hidden Figures Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Margot Lee Shetterly
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the original name of NASA?
(a) NACA.
(b) NAACP.
(c) NASP.
(d) NAPA.

2. How did Shetterly know the woman that her father told her was a human computer, thus sparking her interest in the topic?
(a) The woman was her former babysitter.
(b) The woman was her mother's best friend.
(c) The woman was her former Sunday School teacher.
(d) The woman was her kindergarten teacher.

3. How many women, both black and white, were working as computers when Dorothy Vaughan started at Langley?
(a) 500+.
(b) 100.
(c) 200+.
(d) 20.

4. Who hid the "colored computers" sign from the cafeteria?
(a) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(b) Dorothy Vaughan.
(c) Mary Jackson.
(d) Miriam Mann.

5. What did black newspapers call the black soldiers who fought overseas during World War II?
(a) Tan Yanks.
(b) Black Battalions.
(c) Black Yanks.
(d) Tan Soldiers.

6. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?
(a) Mary Jackson's family.
(b) Miriam Mann's family.
(c) Christine Darden's family.
(d) Margery Hannah's family.

7. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?
(a) Ten.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

8. What did James Thompson call the idea that black Americans had to fight in the war for victory overseas and at home for victory over oppression?
(a) The Black Man's Battle.
(b) The Constant Battle.
(c) The Double V.
(d) The Double War.

9. How did Leonard Vaughan and the other black children ensure they would get the pond to themselves?
(a) Intimidate the white children.
(b) Get their first.
(c) Wait for the white children to leave.
(d) Put a fake "colored only" sign on the shore.

10. What were the segregation laws called?
(a) Racial Separation laws.
(b) Uncle Tom laws.
(c) Colored Workers laws.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

11. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?
(a) Divorced her husband.
(b) Became a member of the church she had been attending.
(c) Signed a lease on a house.
(d) Signed a contract with Langley.

12. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?
(a) Airheads.
(b) Space cadets.
(c) NACA nuts.
(d) NACA nerds.

13. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?
(a) Sponsored a course in engineering physics.
(b) Paid for computers to go back to college.
(c) Paired them up with engineers who acted as mentors.
(d) Required them to take classes at the local college.

14. What laws were being used in an attempt to dismantle black communities after World War II ended?
(a) Slum clearance laws.
(b) Wartime temporary housing laws.
(c) Segregation laws.
(d) Federal housing approval laws.

15. How many more children did Dorothy and Howard Vaughan have after Dorothy moved to Newport News?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Zero.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Langley did the black computers work in?

2. What position was Dorothy Vaughan promoted to under Margery Hannah?

3. What was the name of the personnel officer at Langley Research Center when Dorothy Vaughan began working there?

4. At the time when black women began working at Langley, what was considered the highest level of employment a black woman could achieve?

5. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?

(see the answer keys)

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