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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 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.

2. How old was Katherine Goble Johnson when she entered college?
(a) 19.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 22.

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

4. What event caused the need for Langley to initially hire black women?
(a) World War II.
(b) The launch of Sputnik.
(c) World War I.
(d) The space race.

5. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?
(a) Divorced her husband.
(b) Signed a lease on a house.
(c) Signed a contract with Langley.
(d) Became a member of the church she had been attending.

Short Answer Questions

1. What oath did Dorothy Vaughan have to take upon beginning her job at Langley?

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

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

4. What were the segregation laws called?

5. What did the "X" in the designation of an airplane signify?

Short Essay Questions

1. What observation did black leaders make concerning the events occurring in Europe during World War II?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was the goal of NACA during World War II?

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

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