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

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) 80%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 55%.

3. 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.

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

5. How did the engineers in Flight Research and PARD learn about space flight?
(a) They used information the CIA had stolen from Russia.
(b) They attended courses at Hampton Institute.
(c) They brought in lead scientists from around the world.
(d) They started a self-education lecture series.

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

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

8. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?
(a) A Bell calculator.
(b) An Apple computer.
(c) An IBM computer.
(d) An abacus.

9. 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 they would be forced to move to where they could go to white schools.
(b) They worried that their school would be closed.
(c) They worried they would not be able to compete with white students.
(d) They worried that their white classmates would be angry if the black students got better grades.

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

11. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?
(a) To pursue a master's degree in mathematics.
(b) To get married.
(c) Because she could not advance to an engineering position at NACA.
(d) For a better job in another laboratory.

12. How did Katherine Goble Johnson gain access to the editorial meetings?
(a) She went to the head of her department and made her case to be allowed to attend.
(b) She went to her supervisor and complained.
(c) She just walked into a meeting one day.
(d) She kept asking to attend until her male coworkers gave in.

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

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

15. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?
(a) To request a raise.
(b) To recommend that he hire Mary Jackson.
(c) To clarify Katherine Goble Johnson's position as a member of West Computing or as a permanent member of Flight Research.
(d) To discuss the way Katherine Goble Johnson had been treated by the male engineers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?

2. Why was there sometimes confusion over Katherine Goble Johnson's race?

3. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?

4. In what year did NACA become NASA?

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

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