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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long were schools in Prince Edward closed due to defunding to avoid segregation?
(a) Five years.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) One year.

2. What innovation was added to the wind tunnels to make them more closely simulate flight conditions?
(a) A solid ceiling.
(b) A sloped floor.
(c) Slotted walls.
(d) Sloped walls.

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

4. Why was there sometimes confusion over Katherine Goble Johnson's race?
(a) Her personality made people forget to think about her skin color.
(b) She was also of Chinese descent.
(c) She was very light-skinned.
(d) She had blue eyes.

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

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

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

8. How did Katherine Goble Johnson gain access to the editorial meetings?
(a) She just walked into a meeting one day.
(b) She kept asking to attend until her male coworkers gave in.
(c) She went to her supervisor and complained.
(d) She went to the head of her department and made her case to be allowed to attend.

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

10. What was the purpose of the document titled "Introduction to Outer Space" that was prepared by President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Science?
(a) The document explained spaceflight in layman's terms to make the case that a space program was in America's best interests.
(b) The document was used as a recruiting tool for NASA.
(c) The document was used as a teaching tool for new engineers.
(d) The document was used in high schools to teach space science.

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

12. 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 paid "school fees" to the families.
(d) They placed black students in lower level classes than white students.

13. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?
(a) She was never able to be herself around them.
(b) They overworked her.
(c) They treated her as though she were beneath them.
(d) She was comfortable with them.

14. How old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

15. 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 space flight.
(b) Research on slotted wind tunnel walls.
(c) Research on the control of fighter planes.
(d) Research on air turbulence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?

2. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?

3. What did Shetterly say was one of Katherine Goble Johnson's "great talents?"

4. Who were the Greensboro Four?

5. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?

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