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

2. What effect did V-J day have on the workforce in the area surrounding Langley?
(a) Employers began paying their employees less.
(b) Many workers were laid off.
(c) There was a need to hire additional workers.
(d) Employers began paying their employees more.

3. In 1970, what percentage of engineers in America were black?
(a) 25%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 1%.
(d) 10%.

4. What nickname did Hampton, Virginia give itself in 1962?
(a) NASA Town.
(b) Spacetown, USA.
(c) Astronaut Academy, USA.
(d) Moon Landing II.

5. What did the U.S. government do to prevent black leaders like Josephine Baker and W.E.B. Du Bois from having an impact on relations with newly independent countries?
(a) Revoked their passports.
(b) Charged them with heavy fines.
(c) Put them in jail.
(d) Denounced them in the press.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Dorothy Vaughan get from her hometown to her new job at Langley?

3. Where did Mary Jackson attend college?

4. Why did Mary Jackson return home after her first year as a teacher?

5. At the time when black women began working at Langley, what was considered the highest level of employment a black woman could achieve?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why were employees of NACA warned not to speak of their work outside the office during World War II?

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

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

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

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

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