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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) One year.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Six months.

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

3. How many students were killed in the bus crash at Moton High School?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

4. 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) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(d) Miami, Florida.

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

6. Why did Dorothy Vaughan believe the West Computers would need to learn to use the electronic computers?
(a) The East Computers would take their jobs if they did not learn to use them.
(b) Their male coworkers would think they were not capable if they did not learn to use them.
(c) The electronic computers would eventually replace them, so they would need to be able to use them to keep their jobs.
(d) Their male coworkers would not learn to use the electronic computers.

7. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?
(a) The equation she was asked to use was incorrect.
(b) She had made a simple math error.
(c) There was an error made in the research phase.
(d) He had given her the wrong numbers to use for the calculations.

8. Why was it a challenge for black boys to enter into the All-American Soap Box Derby?
(a) Some area would not let black boys enter the contest.
(b) They had to have an engineer sponsor them.
(c) It was hard for black families to hear about the contest in the first place.
(d) They had to get special permission from their science teachers.

9. In what year was East Computing disbanded?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1943.

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

11. What branch of the military did Katherine Goble Johnson's second husband serve in?
(a) Marines.
(b) Navy.
(c) Army.
(d) Airforce.

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

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

14. Where did Katherine Goble Johnson meet her second husband?
(a) At a church choir practice.
(b) At a basketball game.
(c) At Langley.
(d) At a school board meeting.

15. How did Dorothy Lee feel after agreeing with a report that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?
(a) Confused.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the division chief of The Flight Research Division when Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?

2. What did Langley's Analysis and Computation Division do?

3. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?

4. Who coauthored Mary Jackson's first report?

5. What happened when Katherine Goble Johnson sat down at a desk in the Flight Research Division on her first day there?

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