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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. In what year was East Computing disbanded?

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

3. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?

4. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?

5. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did Americans fear when Russia launched Sputnik?

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

9. In the 1950s, what made Dorothy Vaughan believe that the nature of the computers' jobs would be changing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Langley indicates that segregation was not only detrimental to black Americans, but also to white Americans. Write an essay describing the negative impacts of segregation on America as a whole. How did segregation impact the education system? How did it impact transportation? How did it impact world affairs?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining why Shetterly includes a discussion of the original Star Trek television series. What was important about the series? How did it relate to the civil rights movement? How did the series relate to the work being done at Langley?

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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