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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 were the employees at Langley warned against doing outside of the workplace during World War II?
(a) Socializing with people of different races.
(b) Talking about their work.
(c) Letting anyone know where they worked.
(d) Telling people there were black women working at Langley.

2. At the time when black women began working at Langley, what was considered the highest level of employment a black woman could achieve?
(a) School teacher.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Mathematician.
(d) Maid.

3. What was the name of the senator from Virginia who vehemently opposed the Fair Employment Practices Committee?
(a) Thomas Byrdsong.
(b) Melvin Butler.
(c) Harry Byrd.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

4. What event made Dorothy Vaughan decide that going to graduate school would be economically irresponsible?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Depression.
(c) Her first pregnancy.
(d) Her father's death.

5. Where did Mary Jackson work immediately after her first year of teaching.
(a) At the Hampton Institute.
(b) At Olde Hampton's Bethel AME Church.
(c) At Langley Research Center.
(d) At the USO.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 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?

4. How many women, both black and white, were working as computers when Dorothy Vaughan started at Langley?

5. How did Margery Hannah treat the black computers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Dorothy Vaughan become Head of West Computing?

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

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

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

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

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

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