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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. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?
(a) To go easy on her grieving daughters.
(b) To allow Dorothy Vaughan to pick the children up from school.
(c) Not to give her daughters any special treatment.
(d) To avoid talking about her husband's death.

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

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

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

5. What was the name of America's first manned space project?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Project Mercury.
(c) Challenger.
(d) Project Scout.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?

3. What was the purpose of the document titled "Introduction to Outer Space" that was prepared by President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Science?

4. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?

5. Who coauthored Mary Jackson's first report?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mary Jackson think it was important for her son to participate in the soap box derby?

2. What happened that allowed Katherine Goble Johnson the opportunity to publish her first research report?

3. What was Mary Jackson's reaction the first time she walked into Hampton High School to take engineering classes?

4. How did the governor of Virginia respond to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling and what was the result?

5. Why did Melvin Butler fail to inform the engineering staff that James Williams was black?

6. Why did Katherine Goble Johnson eat at her desk when she worked in the Flight Research Division?

7. Why did NASA move the space program to Houston?

8. Why did the East Computing girls laugh at Mary Jackson when she asked them where the bathroom was?

9. Why did Katherine Goble Johnson decide not to let the engineer who walked away from her when she sat at a desk bother her?

10. Why did the talk that Mary Jackson and Emma Jean gave to a group of girls have such a great impact on the girls?

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