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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did Dorothy Vaughan believe the West Computers would need to learn to use the electronic computers?
2. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?
3. Which group at Langley had already developed expertise in rockets when the space race began?
4. What was the name of the white woman who went with Mary Jackson to speak to a group of black female students about science and engineering careers?
5. How did Mary Jackson see her son's opportunity to build a soap box derby car?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the talk that Mary Jackson and Emma Jean gave to a group of girls have such a great impact on the girls?
2. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson prohibited from attending the editorial meetings?
3. Why was there a push toward space for Americans after Russia launched Sputnik?
4. Why did NASA move the space program to Houston?
5. What happened that allowed Katherine Goble Johnson the opportunity to publish her first research report?
6. Why did Mary Jackson think it was important for her son to participate in the soap box derby?
7. How did the governor of Virginia respond to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling and what was the result?
8. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson warned not to ask for a transfer to an engineering group when she started working at Langley?
9. Why did Katherine Goble Johnson eat at her desk when she worked in the Flight Research Division?
10. How did the disbanding of West Area Computing affect Dorothy Vaughan?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Shetterly makes a case for historical events affecting the opportunities made available to African Americans and women in mathematics and science. Write an essay describing and discussing the ways in which the events occurring in the world created these opportunities. Why was it necessary to hire African American women at Langley? What demands were placed on the researchers at Langley that required additional employees? How did the civil rights movement affect the hiring and advancement of black women at Langley?
Essay Topic 2
Mary Jackson’s humanitarian work outside of Langley informed the direction of her career. Write an essay describing the work that Mary did outside and inside of Langley and how the two were interconnected. Why did Mary make the move to Human Resources and how did her humanitarian work influence the work she did in that department?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay comparing advances in aeronautics to advances in the civil rights movement. How do the two interconnect? Do the two advance at the same rate? Why or why not?
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