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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the secret bunker for politicians to be evacuated to in the event of a Russian attack?
(a) Under the Washington Monument.
(b) Under Hampton High School.
(c) Under the Greenbrier hotel.
(d) Under the Langley Research Center.

2. What position was Dorothy Lee subbing in when she impressed the branch chief with her math skills and earned her permanent position in his branch?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Bookkeeper.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Computer.

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

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

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

6. 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 went back to teaching school.
(c) She became a computer programmer.
(d) She became an engineer.

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

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

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

10. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?
(a) They paid "school fees" to the families.
(b) They did not allow black students to participate in extracurricular activities.
(c) They placed black students in lower level classes than white students.
(d) They offered scholarships to black students who graduated from black schools.

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

12. 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) California.
(c) Kennedy Space Center.
(d) Langley.

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

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

15. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson unable to go to the editorial meetings?
(a) Because she was black.
(b) Because she was female.
(c) Because she was not an engineer.
(d) Because they did not pertain to her work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the reporter who interviewed Dorothy Lee say that women had to work like?

2. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?

3. What percentage of the world's population did NACA's chief legal counsel say was "colored" in a memo written in 1956?

4. 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?

5. What does NASA stand for?

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