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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. How did Leonard Vaughan and the other black children ensure they would get the pond to themselves?
(a) Get their first.
(b) Intimidate the white children.
(c) Wait for the white children to leave.
(d) Put a fake "colored only" sign on the shore.

2. How were black people expected to enter a bus due to segregation laws?
(a) They had to wait for all white passengers to enter first.
(b) Through the front door of the bus.
(c) By getting permission from the bus driver before entering.
(d) Through the back door of the bus.

3. What did the personnel officer know would be necessary if he were to hire black women to work at Langley?
(a) A cafeteria for black employees only.
(b) Added security.
(c) Approval from the white employees.
(d) A separate place for them to work.

4. How much did Dorothy Vaughan pay for her housing when she first started working at Langley?
(a) $10 per week.
(b) Nothing.
(c) $50 per month.
(d) $5 per week.

5. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was special for the Vaughans and Manns about vacationing at Log Cabin Beach?

2. What was the name of the personnel officer at Langley Research Center when Dorothy Vaughan began working there?

3. What event made Dorothy Vaughan decide that going to graduate school would be economically irresponsible?

4. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?

5. How did Shetterly know the woman that her father told her was a human computer, thus sparking her interest in the topic?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did millions of American women lose their jobs after V-J Day?

3. What does Shetterly want for the women she writes about in Hidden Figures?

4. Why was Dorothy Vaughan taking a risk when she decided to sign a lease on a house in Newport News?

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

6. What did Mary Winston Jackson try to teach the girls in the Girl Scouts troop that she lead?

7. Why did Joshua Coleman rent a house for his wife and children that was 125 miles away from their home?

8. How did designating women as "subprofessionals" help the laboratory?

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

10. Why did William Claytor create special classes just for Katherine Goble Johnson?

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