Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.

As the work intensified, something that had been hibernating in her mind awakened, and once roused it would not go away. She considered the issue and checked its logic, just as she did with her analytical work. At first she asked it only of herself, but eventually she came to the engineers with the question.

"Why can't I go to the editorial meetings?" she asked the engineers. A postgame recap of the analysis wasn't nearly as thrilling as being there for the main event. How could she not want to be a part of the discussion? They were her numbers, after all.

"Girls don't go to the meetings," Katherine's male colleagues told her.

Which statements best summarize the excerpt?

• Katherine Goble became more dedicated to her job as the work intensified. She asked to go to the editorial meetings so she could better understand what happened in them, but she was told that girls were not allowed to attend the meetings.

• Katherine Goble became more determined to ask for a larger role as the scope of the work grew.
Unsatisfied with summaries of the analysis that took place in the meetings, she asked why she could not go to the editorial meetings and was told that girls could not attend.

• Katherine Goble became upset that she was not allowed to attend editorial meetings as her work became more involved. When she asked why she could not attend the meetings, she was given an unfair answer that upset her.

• Katherine Goble confronted an issue that had been hibernating in her mind and that would not go away.
She approached the situation logically, as she did with all of her work. When she asked why she could not attend the meetings, she was told that girls could not go.

The best summary of the excerpt from Hidden Figures is that Katherine Goble, as the work intensified, wanted to go to editorial meetings to be a part of the main event, but was told that girls could not attend the meetings.

In the given excerpt from Hidden Figures, Katherine Goble's colleagues told her that girls could not attend the editorial meetings. This angered Katherine because she believed that it was unfair for her not to be allowed to attend the meetings.

She wanted to be a part of the discussion because they were her numbers, and just a postgame recap of the analysis was not enough for her. She believed that if she attended the meetings, she would have a better understanding of what happened in them.

Katherine approached the issue logically as she did with all of her work and asked why she could not attend the meetings. Katherine Goble's colleagues told her that girls could not attend editorial meetings.The other options are not the best summaries of the excerpt because they do not reflect the content of the excerpt.

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Before Reading Superman and Me
LITERARY ANALYSIS: Analyze Text Structure:
Cause and Effect
Authors use cause and effect to explain how one event (the cause) leads to
another event (the effect).
A. Read the passage below. In the Cause-and-Effect Chart, list examples of
cause and effect relationships in the text.
Look Into the Text
In a fit of unemployment-inspired creative energy, my father
built a set of bookshelves and soon filled them with a random
assortment of books about the Kennedy assassination, Watergate,
the Vietnam War, and the entire twenty-three-book series of the
Apache westerns. My father loved books, and since I loved my
father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.
Cause-and-Effect Chart
Cause
My father was unemployed.
B. Complete the sentences.
The narrator developed a love for books because
He built a set of bookshelves.
The narrator's father built a set of bookshelves because
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