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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the head computer when Langley began hiring black women?
(a) Dorothy Vaughan.
(b) Virginia Tucker.
(c) Blanche Sponsler.
(d) Mary Jackson.

2. What were the employees at Langley warned against doing outside of the workplace during World War II?
(a) Socializing with people of different races.
(b) Letting anyone know where they worked.
(c) Talking about their work.
(d) Telling people there were black women working at Langley.

3. How much was Dorothy Vaughan offered in pay to work at Langley in comparison to her teaching job?
(a) Ten cents more per hour.
(b) The same amount.
(c) 50 percent more per hour.
(d) Twice as much.

4. What oath did Dorothy Vaughan have to take upon beginning her job at Langley?
(a) The NACA Loyalty oath.
(b) The Segregated Workplace oath.
(c) The Mathematician's oath.
(d) The U.S. Civil Service oath.

5. How did Katherine Goble Johnson return to teaching in 1944?
(a) Her children's teacher quit and she applied for the job.
(b) Her husband became ill and the school offered her his contract.
(c) She had lost her job at Langley.
(d) Her sister got pregnant, so Katherine took over for her.

6. Who did Dorothy Vaughan think the notice she saw on a bulletin board looking for mathematicians was meant for?
(a) White men only.
(b) The upper class women who worked at the college.
(c) The white students at the nearby college.
(d) Men only.

7. What did the U.S. government do to prevent black leaders like Josephine Baker and W.E.B. Du Bois from having an impact on relations with newly independent countries?
(a) Denounced them in the press.
(b) Revoked their passports.
(c) Charged them with heavy fines.
(d) Put them in jail.

8. Which Executive Order desegregated the military?
(a) Executive Order 9066.
(b) Executive Order 13160.
(c) Executive Order 11246.
(d) Executive Order 8802.

9. Who was West Computing's section head when Dorothy Vaughan first came to Langley?
(a) Miriam Mann.
(b) Blanche Sponsler.
(c) Margery Hannah.
(d) Virginia Tucker.

10. What was the name of the personnel officer at Langley Research Center when Dorothy Vaughan began working there?
(a) Melvin Butler.
(b) John Glenn.
(c) Thomas Byrdsong.
(d) Asa Phillip Randolph.

11. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?
(a) The Nuremberg trial.
(b) Roe v. Wade.
(c) The Rosenberg trial.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

12. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Ten.
(d) One.

13. What was Howard Vaughan's job?
(a) He was a teacher.
(b) He was a custodian at the high school.
(c) He worked in a shipyard.
(d) He was an itinerant bellman.

14. How old was Katherine Goble Johnson when she entered college?
(a) 19.
(b) 15.
(c) 22.
(d) 17.

15. What was the name of the senator from Virginia who vehemently opposed the Fair Employment Practices Committee?
(a) Melvin Butler.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Harry Byrd.
(d) Thomas Byrdsong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did black newspapers call the black soldiers who fought overseas during World War II?

2. How did Dorothy Vaughan get from her hometown to her new job at Langley?

3. How did Shetterly know the woman that her father told her was a human computer, thus sparking her interest in the topic?

4. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?

5. Who hid the "colored computers" sign from the cafeteria?

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