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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Langley's Analysis and Computation Division do?
(a) Caused the human computers at Langley to lose their jobs.
(b) Integrated black and white female computers into one group.
(c) Separated the black women computers from their engineering groups.
(d) Introduced male computers to Langley.

3. What branch of the military did Katherine Goble Johnson's second husband serve in?
(a) Navy.
(b) Marines.
(c) Army.
(d) Airforce.

4. In what year was East Computing disbanded?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1961.

5. Besides fearing an attack, what bothered Americans about Russia launching Sputnik?
(a) Americans believed Russia was using the satellite to monitor their communications.
(b) Americans were humiliated that Russia had beat them to space.
(c) Americans believed Russia had stolen plans for its satellite from America.
(d) Americans were only weeks away from launching a manned spacecraft.

6. What was the name of Mary Jackson's son who entered into the soap box derby race?
(a) Leonard.
(b) William.
(c) Levi.
(d) Arthur.

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

8. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?
(a) Miami, Florida.
(b) Austin, Texas.
(c) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas.

9. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
(a) They worried that they would be forced to move to where they could go to white schools.
(b) They worried that their school would be closed.
(c) They worried they would not be able to compete with white students.
(d) They worried that their white classmates would be angry if the black students got better grades.

10. What did James Williams have to do on his first day of work at Langley?
(a) Take a test to prove he had the necessary skills to work there.
(b) Convince the guards at the gate that he was an engineer.
(c) Deal with a mechanic who sabotaged his work.
(d) Prove that he had an engineering degree.

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

12. What happened when Katherine Goble Johnson sat down at a desk in the Flight Research Division on her first day there?
(a) The white man next to her got up and walked away.
(b) She was told to move.
(c) She was mistaken for Dorothy Vaughan.
(d) She was given work meant for one of the engineers.

13. What was the name of the first satellite the Russian's put into orbit?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Red One.
(c) Sputnik.
(d) Apollo.

14. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?
(a) Research on the control of fighter planes.
(b) Research on slotted wind tunnel walls.
(c) Research on air turbulence.
(d) Research on space flight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did President Eisenhower want America's first spaceflight to be perceived?

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

3. In what Langley building did much of the research surrounding spaceflight take place?

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

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

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