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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Langley Research Center's newsletter?
(a) NACA Notes.
(b) Research Reporter.
(c) The Flyer.
(d) Air Scoop.

2. Which Executive Order desegregated the military?
(a) Executive Order 9066.
(b) Executive Order 8802.
(c) Executive Order 13160.
(d) Executive Order 11246.

3. How did Dorothy Vaughan get from her hometown to her new job at Langley?
(a) She drove her car.
(b) She took a Greyhound bus.
(c) She walked.
(d) Her husband drove her.

4. Who was the professor that mentored Katherine Goble Johnson while she was in college?
(a) Asa Phillips Randolph.
(b) William Claytor.
(c) John Henrik Clarke.
(d) W.E.B. DuBois.

5. What was the name of the pilot who broke the sound barrier?
(a) Chuck Yeager.
(b) Harry Byrd.
(c) John Glenn.
(d) Thomas Byrdsong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did Hampton, Virginia give itself in 1962?

2. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?

3. Where did Dorothy Vaughan and her husband live after marrying?

4. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?

5. What was the original name of NASA?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Miriam Mann object to the "colored computers" sign in the cafeteria?

2. How did the white professors and students treat Katherine Goble Johnson when she was one of three students chosen to integrate West Virginia University?

3. How did Shetterly's childhood affect the way she thought of blacks working in science, math, and engineering?

4. Why did Howard Vaughan refuse to move from Farmville to live with his family in Newport News?

5. What did some supervisors at Langley do to encourage talented female computers to remain on the job?

6. How did the Depression affect black teachers like Dorothy Vaughan?

7. How did the Jim Crow laws make public transportation difficult for both blacks and whites in Newport News?

8. Why was it necessary for Melvin Butler to begin hiring black women as computers?

9. Why did Dorothy Vaughan work in the laundry at Camp Pickett in the summers?

10. What was the attitude of the male engineers when a human computer made an error?

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