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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 position was Dorothy Vaughan promoted to under Margery Hannah?
(a) Mathematician.
(b) Head computer.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Shift supervisor.

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

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

4. How did Shetterly know the woman that her father told her was a human computer, thus sparking her interest in the topic?
(a) The woman was her mother's best friend.
(b) The woman was her former Sunday School teacher.
(c) The woman was her kindergarten teacher.
(d) The woman was her former babysitter.

5. What was the original name of NASA?
(a) NACA.
(b) NAPA.
(c) NASP.
(d) NAACP.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the group of black pilots whose exploits were closely followed by the black community during World War II?

3. What was special for the Vaughans and Manns about vacationing at Log Cabin Beach?

4. What did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?

5. Who was the singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Howard Vaughan refuse to move from Farmville to live with his family in Newport News?

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

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

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

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

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