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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many more children did Dorothy and Howard Vaughan have after Dorothy moved to Newport News?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Zero.

2. How much was Dorothy Vaughan offered in pay to work at Langley in comparison to her teaching job?
(a) 50 percent more per hour.
(b) Twice as much.
(c) The same amount.
(d) Ten cents more per hour.

3. What did the "X" in the designation of an airplane signify?
(a) That it was a bomber.
(b) That it was a fighter plane.
(c) That it was experimental.
(d) That it was a cargo plane.

4. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) The Rosenberg trial.
(c) Roe v. Wade.
(d) The Nuremberg trial.

5. How did Dorothy Vaughan get from her hometown to her new job at Langley?
(a) Her husband drove her.
(b) She took a Greyhound bus.
(c) She walked.
(d) She drove her car.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were black people expected to enter a bus due to segregation laws?

2. In 1970, what percentage of engineers in America were black?

3. What was Howard Vaughan's job?

4. What song did Mary Jackson tell her Girl Scouts that they would never sing again after she thought about the stereotypes the song promoted?

5. In what year did the first female computing pool begin working at Langley?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Depression affect black teachers like Dorothy Vaughan?

2. Why was Margery Hannah considered a pariah by some of her white coworkers?

3. How did the Jim Crow laws make public transportation difficult for both blacks and whites in Newport News?

4. Why was Dorothy Vaughan taking a risk when she decided to sign a lease on a house in Newport News?

5. What did Mary Winston Jackson try to teach the girls in the Girl Scouts troop that she lead?

6. Why did Miriam Mann object to the "colored computers" sign in the cafeteria?

7. Why did Howard Vaughan refuse to move from Farmville to live with his family in Newport News?

8. Why was it so difficult for Dorothy Vaughan to leave Farmville for her new job at Langley?

9. Why did William Claytor create special classes just for Katherine Goble Johnson?

10. Why were employees of NACA warned not to speak of their work outside the office during World War II?

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