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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. Which of the following planes was used in the bombing of Japan?
(a) Chance Vaught F4U Corsair.
(b) North American P-51 Mustang.
(c) Douglas C-47 Skytrain.
(d) Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

2. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?
(a) Margery Hannah's family.
(b) Miriam Mann's family.
(c) Mary Jackson's family.
(d) Christine Darden's family.

3. Who was Matilda West, the black employee who was fired for disloyalty, related to?
(a) Dorothy Vaughan.
(b) Miriam Mann.
(c) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(d) Mary Jackson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Katherine Goble Johnson return to teaching in 1944?

3. How many more children did Dorothy and Howard Vaughan have after Dorothy moved to Newport News?

4. What song did Mary Jackson tell her Girl Scouts that they would never sing again after she thought about the stereotypes the song promoted?

5. What part of Langley did the black computers work in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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