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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?
(a) Kaz Czarnecki's work.
(b) Thomas Byrdsong's work.
(c) Mary Jackson's work.
(d) Katherine Goble Johnson's work.

2. What country were Americans concerned about their students being able to compete with?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) China.
(d) Russia.

3. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?
(a) She made a calculation error.
(b) She did not know how to use a calculator.
(c) She asked them where the bathroom was.
(d) She was not allowed to sit with them in the cafeteria.

4. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?
(a) They offered scholarships to black students who graduated from black schools.
(b) They did not allow black students to participate in extracurricular activities.
(c) They placed black students in lower level classes than white students.
(d) They paid "school fees" to the families.

5. Where did Jimmy Goble work when he and Katherine moved to Newsome Park?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) Langley Research Center.
(c) At a high school.
(d) The shipyard.

6. How had Katherine Goble Johnson's father taught her to treat other people?
(a) As inferior to herself.
(b) As equals.
(c) As superiors to herself.
(d) As strangers to be wary of.

7. What was special about Mary Jackson's son winning the soap box derby?
(a) Mary was the first mother to help her son in the derby.
(b) It was the last soap box derby ever held.
(c) He was awarded a scholarship to attend college.
(d) He was the first black boy to win the peninsula's competition.

8. How many students were killed in the bus crash at Moton High School?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

9. Who coauthored Mary Jackson's first report?
(a) Kaz Czarnecki.
(b) Dorothy Vaughan.
(c) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(d) R.T. Jones.

10. What was Christine Mann Darden's job when she was in high school?
(a) She worked as maid in a hotel.
(b) She worked in an antiques store at a hotel.
(c) She worked in a laundromat.
(d) She worked in a library.

11. Who was the first human in space?
(a) Alan Shepard.
(b) John Glenn.
(c) Neil Armstrong.
(d) Yuri Gagarin.

12. Why did Langley employees hold meetings and social gatherings in their own Activities Building in the 1950s?
(a) Because it was the only building in the area large enough to accommodate them.
(b) So they could avoid trying to find a public building that would allow a racially mixed group.
(c) Because they did not want people outside the laboratory to hear what they talked about.
(d) Because it was the nicest building in the area.

13. What position was Dorothy Lee subbing in when she impressed the branch chief with her math skills and earned her permanent position in his branch?
(a) Computer.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Bookkeeper.
(d) Engineer.

14. What was Kaz's response when Mary told him about being laughed at by the white computers?
(a) He reprimanded the white computers.
(b) He invited her to come and work for him.
(c) He laughed at her.
(d) He told her that if she did not like being laughed at, she should work somewhere else.

15. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?
(a) An abacus.
(b) An IBM computer.
(c) An Apple computer.
(d) A Bell calculator.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did NACA become NASA?

2. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?

3. Where did Katherine Goble Johnson meet her second husband?

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

5. Who was the division chief of The Flight Research Division when Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?

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