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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. Why did Mary Jackson return home after her first year as a teacher?
(a) To care for her ill father.
(b) She had been fired for expecting too much from her students.
(c) To pursue a graduate degree.
(d) Because she did not like teaching.

2. How many women, both black and white, were working as computers when Dorothy Vaughan started at Langley?
(a) 20.
(b) 200+.
(c) 500+.
(d) 100.

3. What was special for the Vaughans and Manns about vacationing at Log Cabin Beach?
(a) There were no "colored" signs.
(b) Blacks and whites vacationed together there without segregation laws.
(c) It was the only place they were able to socialize with one another.
(d) Miriam and Dorothy could talk openly about their work.

4. What part of Langley did the black computers work in?
(a) South Area.
(b) East Area.
(c) West Area.
(d) North Area.

5. Who did Dorothy Vaughan think the notice she saw on a bulletin board looking for mathematicians was meant for?
(a) White men only.
(b) The upper class women who worked at the college.
(c) The white students at the nearby college.
(d) Men only.

Short Answer Questions

1. What laws were being used in an attempt to dismantle black communities after World War II ended?

2. How much did Dorothy Vaughan pay for her housing when she first started working at Langley?

3. What was the name of Langley Research Center's newsletter?

4. At what age did Dorothy Vaughan graduate from high school?

5. How much was Dorothy Vaughan offered in pay to work at Langley in comparison to her teaching job?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why were Howard and Dorothy Vaughan an uneven match for one another?

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

8. How did Dorothy Vaughan become Head of West Computing?

9. Why was it so difficult for Dorothy Vaughan to leave Farmville for her new job at Langley?

10. Why was Margery Hannah considered a pariah by some of her white coworkers?

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