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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?
(a) She became the head of the division.
(b) She became an engineer.
(c) She became a computer programmer.
(d) She went back to teaching school.

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) Emily Jamison.
(c) Margery Hannah.
(d) Blanche Sponsler.

3. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?
(a) Massive Resistance.
(b) White Power.
(c) School Safety.
(d) Rightful Resistance.

4. 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 they would not be able to compete with white students.
(c) They worried that they would be forced to move to where they could go to white schools.
(d) They worried that their school would be closed.

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

6. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?
(a) Desegregation of the military.
(b) Abolition of the Jim Crow laws.
(c) Desegregation of schools.
(d) Affirmative action.

7. What did Katherine Goble Johnson's husband die from?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) A brain tumor.
(d) A heart attack.

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

9. 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 the control of fighter planes.
(c) Research on slotted wind tunnel walls.
(d) Research on air turbulence.

10. Who were the Greensboro Four?
(a) Black leaders who helped integrate schools.
(b) Engineers who designed the Mercury capsule.
(c) Students who sat at a segregated lunch counter.
(d) Four women in West Computing who were all from Greensboro.

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

12. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?
(a) The ability to coddle the women under her.
(b) The ability to shrug off discriminatory remarks made by the East Computers.
(c) The ability to match temperaments with groups.
(d) The ability to circumvent the management system.

13. Who was the division chief of The Flight Research Division when Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?
(a) John Becker.
(b) James William.
(c) R. T. Jones.
(d) Henry Pearson.

14. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Roe v. Wade.
(c) The Rosenberg Trial.
(d) Plessy v. Ferguson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson unable to go to the editorial meetings?

2. How did Dorothy Lee feel after agreeing with a report that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?

3. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?

4. What was Christine Mann Darden's job when she was in high school?

5. What part of the Mercury Project was the team that Dorothy Lee worked on responsible for?

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