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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes the attitude toward girls at the time Kathrine Johnson was born?
Girls weren't valued for their intellectual abilities.
Girls were considered equal to boys in every way.
Girls were highly valued for their contributions to math and science.
Girls were given more opportunities than boys.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Under segregation laws, African American people were
Required to enlist as soldiers to fight in the war.
Separated form white people and treated poorly.
Encouraged to work with white people.
Asked to give their jobs to women.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What milestone did Katherine Johnson reach at age 15?
She calculated her first rocket trajectory.
She began working at NASA.
She began college.
She began high school.
- 4. Multiple Choice
The human computers at NASA were
Young children with strong math skills.
Electronic machines made of metal and wires.
Women who did calculations with numbers
Rockets that orbited earth.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes the organization of black and white human computers at NASA in the 1950s?
Black and white computers all worked and at meals together.
Black computers were forced to use separate workspaces, bathrooms and cafeterias than whit computers.
White computers were the black computer's bosses, and black computers did projects for them.
Black computers were the white computer's bosses, and white computers did projects for them.
- 6. Multiple Choice
How did Katherine Johnson respond when it seemed that certain meetings at NASA were only for men?
She accepted that the meetings were only for men and didn't ask to attend.
She created special meetings that were only for women.
She brought NASA to court and won the right for women to attend all meetings.
She asked if there was a law against women attending and then attended the meetings.
- 7. Multiple Choice
By 1958, America was involved in a race with the Soviet Union to
Desegregate workplaces.
Explore outer space.
Develop new medical procedures for injured soldiers.
Build the smallest electronic computer.
- 8. Multiple Choice
The trajectory of a rocket is the
Amount of fuel it needs.
Path it takes.
Astronaut who flies it.
Computer inside it.
- 9. Multiple Choice
In which of the following space missions did Katherine Johnson play a role?
Alan Shepard's first flight into space.
John Glenn's first orbit of the Earth.
Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
All of the above.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What did John Glenn ask Katherine Johnson to do before he orbited Earth?
Calculate his trajectory instead of having an electronic computer do it.
Fly with him in the spacecraft around the Earth.
Double check the original calculations that had been done by an electronic computer.
Teach him how to calculate trajectories.
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