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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. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?
(a) Langley.
(b) Houston.
(c) Kennedy Space Center.
(d) California.

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

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

4. What was the purpose of the document titled "Introduction to Outer Space" that was prepared by President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Science?
(a) The document was used as a recruiting tool for NASA.
(b) The document was used in high schools to teach space science.
(c) The document explained spaceflight in layman's terms to make the case that a space program was in America's best interests.
(d) The document was used as a teaching tool for new engineers.

5. What was the name of Mary Jackson's son who entered into the soap box derby race?
(a) Levi.
(b) William.
(c) Arthur.
(d) Leonard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was there sometimes confusion over Katherine Goble Johnson's race?

2. What was the name of America's first manned space project?

3. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson unable to go to the editorial meetings?

4. What did Langley's Analysis and Computation Division do?

5. Who were the Greensboro Four?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What made the theoretical group an especially good place for women to work?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Katherine and Jimmy Goble have to stay with relatives when they attended Jimmy's sister's wedding?

10. What happened at Moton High School that drew them into the Brown v. Board of Education case?

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