Question 1

Which of the following best describes the attitude toward girls at the time Katherine Johnson was born?

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Girls weren't valued for their intellectual abilities.

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Girls were given more opportunities than boys.

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Girls were highly valued for their contributions to math and science.

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Girls were considered equal to boys in every way.

Question 2

Under segregation laws, African-American people were

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separated from white people and treated poorly.

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encouraged to work with white people.

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asked to give their jobs to women.

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required to enlist as soldiers to fight in the war.

Question 3

What milestone Katherine Johnson reach at age 15?

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She began college.

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She calculated her first rocket trajectory.

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She began working at NASA.

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She began high school.

Question 4

The human computers at NASA were

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women who did calculations with numbers.

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rockets that orbited Earth.

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electronic machines made of metal and wires.

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young children with strong math skills.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes the organization of black and white human computers at NASA in the 1950s?

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Black computers were forced to use separate workspaces, bathrooms and cafeterias than white computers.

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Black and white computers all worked and ate meals together.

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White computers were the black computers’ bosses, and black computers did projects for them.

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Black computers were the white computers’ bosses, and white computers did projects for them.

Question 6

How did Katherine Johnson respond when it seemed that certain meetings at NASA were only for men?

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She asked if there was a law against women attending and then attended the meetings.

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She brought NASA to court and won the right for women to attend all meetings.

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She accepted that the meetings were only for men and didn’t ask to attend.

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She created special meetings that were only for women.

Question 7

By 1958, America was involved in a race with the Soviet Union to

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explore outer space.

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desegregate workplaces.

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build the smallest electronic computer.

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develop new medical procedures for injured soldiers.

Question 8

The trajectory of a rocket is the

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path it takes.

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amount of fuel it needs

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astronaut who flies in it.

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computer inside it.

Question 9

In which of the following space missions did Katherine Johnson play a role?

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all of the above

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John Glenn's first orbit of the Earth

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Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 mission to the moon

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Alan Shepard's first flight into space

Question 10

What did John Glenn ask Katherine Johnson to do before he orbited the Earth?

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double check the original calculations that had been done by an electronic computer

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calculate his trajectory instead of having an electronic computer do it

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teach him how to calculate trajectories

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fly with him in the spacecraft around the Earth

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