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Hidden Figures Film Study Guide

This document contains 30 multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about the film Hidden Figures and NASA history. It tests the reader's understanding of details like what year the film is set, the jobs held by Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy at NASA, important events and spacecraft from the early US space program, and the mathematical contributions made by the women featured in the film.

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Hidden Figures Film Study Guide

This document contains 30 multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about the film Hidden Figures and NASA history. It tests the reader's understanding of details like what year the film is set, the jobs held by Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy at NASA, important events and spacecraft from the early US space program, and the mathematical contributions made by the women featured in the film.

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Hidden Figures Questions

1. As the film opens, a young Katherine A prime number is a number that can only get
is counting and identifying prime divide by its self and 1
numbers. What is a prime number?

2. What year is the film set? 1961


3. Why would Katherine, Mary and Because all colrded people had to sit at the
Dorothy have to sit in the back of the back of the bus
bus in 1960s America?

4. Where do they work? Nasa


5. The actor who plays Paul Stafford is in The big bang therey
which TV programme?

6. What does IBM stand for? Internatol business machines


7. What happens to Mary just before Her heel gets stuck in a vent grate during a
they test a capsule? test
8. What type of necklace is Katherine Chrome necklace
allowed to wear in Space Task Group?
9. Why does Paul go over some of his Because its classified
work with a marker?
10.Why does Katherine’s oldest daughter Because she does the chores and is the largest
get her own bed? child
11.What’s happened to Katherine’s Died of cancer
husband?

12.What is their job title at NASA? Mathematizations


13.What happens when Dorothy goes to She got kicked out
the library?

14.Who was the first man in space? The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin,
April 12, 1961.
15.How many US flags at the NASA press 11
conference?
16.How many calculations can the IBM 24000 calculations
do?
17.Why does Al Harrison (Katherine’s She has to walk half a mile to use the
boss) get annoyed with her? restroom.

18.What does he do about it? He removes all the colored signs and labels in
the building.

19.What was the name of Alan Sheperd’s 1961, The Freedom 7.


spacecraft?

20.Why does Mary go to court? She wants to attend courses at Hempton High
School.

21.What happened to the Liberty Bell It lands in the ocean and takes on water.
capsule?

22.What is the ancient method they find The ancient method is Eulers’s method.
that solves the mathematical
problem?

23.What does Al say progress is? Al says progress is a double -edged sword.
The sound was garbled a little.

24.What do Space Task Group get A pearl necklace


Katherine as an engagement present?

25.What does Katherine need to She needs to identify the correct coordinates
identify? because the IBM was wrong.
26.What is the name of John Glenn’s The Friendship 7.
spacecraft?

27.What warning light flashes red? The heat shield came loose.
28.Where does he splashdown? The Bahamas ocean.
29.When did NASA go to the moon? July 20 1969
30.How old was Katherine Johnson when 97
she was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom?

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