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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. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?
(a) To clarify Katherine Goble Johnson's position as a member of West Computing or as a permanent member of Flight Research.
(b) To request a raise.
(c) To recommend that he hire Mary Jackson.
(d) To discuss the way Katherine Goble Johnson had been treated by the male engineers.

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

3. How long were schools in Prince Edward closed due to defunding to avoid segregation?
(a) Five years.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) One year.

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

5. Besides fearing an attack, what bothered Americans about Russia launching Sputnik?
(a) Americans believed Russia was using the satellite to monitor their communications.
(b) Americans were only weeks away from launching a manned spacecraft.
(c) Americans were humiliated that Russia had beat them to space.
(d) Americans believed Russia had stolen plans for its satellite from America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

2. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?

3. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?

4. How did Dorothy Lee feel after agreeing with a report that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?

5. Why was it a challenge for black boys to enter into the All-American Soap Box Derby?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Americans fear when Russia launched Sputnik?

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

3. What was one major change that occurred when NACA became NASA?

4. Why did Dorothy Lee regret agreeing with a reporter when she said that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?

5. Why was the U.S. Army called to a school in Little Rock, Arkansas?

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

7. How did the disbanding of West Area Computing affect Dorothy Vaughan?

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

9. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson prohibited from attending the editorial meetings?

10. Why was there confusion about which room to place Katherine Goble Johnson's mother in when she was in the hospital?

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