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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Margery Hannah.
(b) Blanche Sponsler.
(c) Emily Jamison.
(d) Emma Jean Landrum.

2. In what Langley building did much of the research surrounding spaceflight take place?
(a) Building 1244.
(b) Building 51.
(c) The Activities Building.
(d) The Space Research Building.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. What part of the Mercury Project did Katherine Goble Johnson request to work on?
(a) The landing sequence of the spacecraft.
(b) The formula for the rocket fuel.
(c) The design of the spacecraft.
(d) The trajectory of the orbital flight.

9. Which group at Langley had already developed expertise in rockets when the space race began?
(a) The Materials Research Division.
(b) The Flight Research Division.
(c) The Formal Methods Research Group.
(d) PARD.

10. 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 air turbulence.
(c) Research on space flight.
(d) Research on slotted wind tunnel walls.

11. Who was the first human in space?
(a) Neil Armstrong.
(b) Yuri Gagarin.
(c) John Glenn.
(d) Alan Shepard.

12. What rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?
(a) That there would be a black man on the first space flight.
(b) That they were racist.
(c) That the astronauts were contributing to the students' organizing for social change.
(d) That the astronauts were going to join the lunch counter sit ins.

13. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?
(a) To avoid talking about her husband's death.
(b) Not to give her daughters any special treatment.
(c) To allow Dorothy Vaughan to pick the children up from school.
(d) To go easy on her grieving daughters.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?

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

4. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?

5. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?

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