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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was Christine Mann Darden's job when she was in high school?
(a) She worked as maid in a hotel.
(b) She worked in an antiques store at a hotel.
(c) She worked in a laundromat.
(d) She worked in a library.

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) 80%.
(c) 46%.
(d) 75%.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?
(a) She had to walk there.
(b) Her supervisor had to give her permission to attend an engineering class.
(c) The school was segregated.
(d) The classes were not open to women.

Short Answer 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?

2. How long were schools in Prince Edward closed due to defunding to avoid segregation?

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

4. 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?

5. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?

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