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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 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) Put them in jail.
(b) Denounced them in the press.
(c) Charged them with heavy fines.
(d) Revoked their passports.

2. What did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?
(a) Wind tunnels.
(b) Ground models.
(c) Unmanned aircrafts.
(d) Computer simulations.

3. Who was the professor that mentored Katherine Goble Johnson while she was in college?
(a) W.E.B. DuBois.
(b) William Claytor.
(c) John Henrik Clarke.
(d) Asa Phillips Randolph.

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

5. Which Executive Order desegregated the military?
(a) Executive Order 8802.
(b) Executive Order 9066.
(c) Executive Order 13160.
(d) Executive Order 11246.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?

2. What were the employees at Langley warned against doing outside of the workplace during World War II?

3. What was Asa Phillip Randolph's position when he threatened to lead a march on Washington if war jobs were not opened to blacks?

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

5. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the attitude of the male engineers when a human computer made an error?

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

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

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

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

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

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