Questions:

1. The group of women who helped put a man They helped the Apollo mission land
on the moon were known as on the moon.
women computers.
human computers. 8. Because of the Jim Crow laws, these
space computers. women
had to sit at the back of the bus to
2. The women did advanced math calculations get to work.
using computers. couldn't sit at the same lunch tables
by using calculators. or use the same bathrooms as
by hand. whites.
All of the above.
3. They had to make sure that the planes were
safe and fast. 9. Langley's newly ___ workforce made it
efficient. not just a flight laboratory, but a social
safe, fast, and efficient. experiment.
diverse
4. Their work was _____ for the astronauts. divorced
life or death reversed
life and death
safely 10. Leland Melvin said that after Johnson
retired, her name was spoken
5. Hidden Figures is the story of how a small in remembrance.
band of black women joined the space with hesitance.
program in the 50's and 60's, in reverence.
describing female stereotypes and
chastising a segregated system.
dying female stereotypes and
challenging a separated system.
defying female stereotypes and
challenging a segregated system.

6. Katherine Johnson still lives by the same ___

her father told her when she was young:
"You're as good as anybody else."
model
motto
mottle

7. What did Katherine Johnson's calculations

help accomplish in 1969?
They calculated the trajectory of Alan
Shepard's space flight.
They helped verify the numbers in
John Glenn's orbit.