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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What innovation was added to the wind tunnels to make them more closely simulate flight conditions?
(a) Sloped walls.
(b) A sloped floor.
(c) A solid ceiling.
(d) Slotted walls.

2. How did Dorothy Lee feel after agreeing with a report that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?
(a) Confused.
(b) Angry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Embarrassed.

3. Who was the first human in space?
(a) Yuri Gagarin.
(b) Neil Armstrong.
(c) Alan Shepard.
(d) John Glenn.

4. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?
(a) Kaz Czarnecki's work.
(b) Mary Jackson's work.
(c) Thomas Byrdsong's work.
(d) Katherine Goble Johnson's work.

5. Who was the division chief of The Flight Research Division when Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?
(a) John Becker.
(b) Henry Pearson.
(c) James William.
(d) R. T. Jones.

6. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?
(a) They offered scholarships to black students who graduated from black schools.
(b) They paid "school fees" to the families.
(c) They placed black students in lower level classes than white students.
(d) They did not allow black students to participate in extracurricular activities.

7. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?
(a) To get married.
(b) For a better job in another laboratory.
(c) To pursue a master's degree in mathematics.
(d) Because she could not advance to an engineering position at NACA.

8. What did Katherine Goble Johnson's husband die from?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A brain tumor.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Malaria.

9. What position was Dorothy Lee subbing in when she impressed the branch chief with her math skills and earned her permanent position in his branch?
(a) Computer.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Bookkeeper.
(d) Secretary.

10. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?
(a) Desegregation of schools.
(b) Abolition of the Jim Crow laws.
(c) Desegregation of the military.
(d) Affirmative action.

11. What did James Williams have to do on his first day of work at Langley?
(a) Convince the guards at the gate that he was an engineer.
(b) Deal with a mechanic who sabotaged his work.
(c) Take a test to prove he had the necessary skills to work there.
(d) Prove that he had an engineering degree.

12. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?
(a) An IBM computer.
(b) An abacus.
(c) An Apple computer.
(d) A Bell calculator.

13. How did Mary Jackson see her son's opportunity to build a soap box derby car?
(a) As a waste of time.
(b) As a way of boosting his self-esteem.
(c) As an apprenticeship in engineering.
(d) As a way to show that he could do anything white children could do.

14. What did Langley's Analysis and Computation Division do?
(a) Introduced male computers to Langley.
(b) Caused the human computers at Langley to lose their jobs.
(c) Separated the black women computers from their engineering groups.
(d) Integrated black and white female computers into one group.

15. What was Christine Mann Darden's job when she was in high school?
(a) She worked as maid in a hotel.
(b) She worked in a library.
(c) She worked in a laundromat.
(d) She worked in an antiques store at a hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Langley employees hold meetings and social gatherings in their own Activities Building in the 1950s?

2. How did the engineers in Flight Research and PARD learn about space flight?

3. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?

4. Where did Jimmy Goble work when he and Katherine moved to Newsome Park?

5. How many students were killed in the bus crash at Moton High School?

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