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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song did Mary Jackson tell her Girl Scouts that they would never sing again after she thought about the stereotypes the song promoted?
(a) No More My Lawd.
(b) Pick a Bale of Cotton.
(c) Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
(d) Early in the Mornin'.

2. How did Dorothy Vaughan find a place to stay when she arrived in Newport News?
(a) The personnel department at Langley kept a file of available housing separated by races.
(b) A friend gave her the name of a woman who owned a boarding house.
(c) She found an ad in the paper for "colored housing."
(d) She stayed with people she met at church.

3. What position did the hotel Katherine worked at while in high school move her to to take advantage of her charisma?
(a) Bellhop.
(b) Store clerk.
(c) Maid.
(d) Waitress.

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

5. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?
(a) Required them to take classes at the local college.
(b) Sponsored a course in engineering physics.
(c) Paid for computers to go back to college.
(d) Paired them up with engineers who acted as mentors.

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

7. Who was the singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?
(a) Ellah Fitzgerald.
(b) Billie Holiday.
(c) Lena Horne.
(d) Marian Anderson.

8. How did Leonard Vaughan and the other black children ensure they would get the pond to themselves?
(a) Wait for the white children to leave.
(b) Put a fake "colored only" sign on the shore.
(c) Get their first.
(d) Intimidate the white children.

9. At what age did Dorothy Vaughan graduate from high school?
(a) 17.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.

10. What was the name of Katherine Goble Johnson's first husband?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) William.
(c) Howard.
(d) James.

11. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?
(a) Miriam Mann's family.
(b) Margery Hannah's family.
(c) Mary Jackson's family.
(d) Christine Darden's family.

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

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

14. How did Shetterly know the woman that her father told her was a human computer, thus sparking her interest in the topic?
(a) The woman was her kindergarten teacher.
(b) The woman was her mother's best friend.
(c) The woman was her former Sunday School teacher.
(d) The woman was her former babysitter.

15. What was the name of the pilot who broke the sound barrier?
(a) Chuck Yeager.
(b) Thomas Byrdsong.
(c) Harry Byrd.
(d) John Glenn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the "X" in the designation of an airplane signify?

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

3. How were black people expected to enter a bus due to segregation laws?

4. What was the name of the senator from Virginia who vehemently opposed the Fair Employment Practices Committee?

5. What was Shetterly's father's job at Langley?

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