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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 their white classmates would be angry if the black students got better grades.
(b) They worried that they would be forced to move to where they could go to white schools.
(c) They worried that their school would be closed.
(d) They worried they would not be able to compete with white students.

2. What was the name of the white woman who went with Mary Jackson to speak to a group of black female students about science and engineering careers?
(a) Emma Jean Landrum.
(b) Margery Hannah.
(c) Emily Jamison.
(d) Blanche Sponsler.

3. What part of the Mercury Project was the team that Dorothy Lee worked on responsible for?
(a) The trajectory of the flight.
(b) The design of the spacecraft.
(c) The orbital path.
(d) The rockets.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Hampton Institute.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Virginia State University.

8. What percentage of the world's population did NACA's chief legal counsel say was "colored" in a memo written in 1956?
(a) 55%.
(b) 46%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 75%.

9. What was the name of America's first manned space project?
(a) Challenger.
(b) Project Mercury.
(c) Project Scout.
(d) Apollo.

10. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?
(a) Houston.
(b) Langley.
(c) Kennedy Space Center.
(d) California.

11. What did Katherine's analysis of an accident involving a small plane lead to?
(a) Changes to the wing structure of airplanes.
(b) A change in the design of small airplanes.
(c) A change in pilot procedures for landing an airplane.
(d) Changes in air traffic regulations to avoid wake turbulence accidents.

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

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

14. Who was branch chief that offered James Williams a place on his team?
(a) John Becker.
(b) Jaybird.
(c) Kaz.
(d) R.T. Jones.

15. Why was it a challenge for black boys to enter into the All-American Soap Box Derby?
(a) Some area would not let black boys enter the contest.
(b) They had to get special permission from their science teachers.
(c) It was hard for black families to hear about the contest in the first place.
(d) They had to have an engineer sponsor them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the engineers in Flight Research and PARD learn about space flight?

2. What innovation was added to the wind tunnels to make them more closely simulate flight conditions?

3. How did Katherine Goble Johnson gain access to the editorial meetings?

4. What does NASA stand for?

5. What was the name of Mary Jackson's son who entered into the soap box derby race?

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