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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. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?
(a) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(b) Austin, Texas.
(c) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(d) Miami, Florida.

2. What does NASA stand for?
(a) Newport Aeronautical and Science Administration.
(b) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(c) New Airplane Science Administration.
(d) National Aero Space Alliance.

3. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?
(a) White Power.
(b) Massive Resistance.
(c) School Safety.
(d) Rightful Resistance.

4. How did Katherine Goble Johnson gain access to the editorial meetings?
(a) She just walked into a meeting one day.
(b) She went to her supervisor and complained.
(c) She kept asking to attend until her male coworkers gave in.
(d) She went to the head of her department and made her case to be allowed to attend.

5. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) Desegregation of schools.
(c) Desegregation of the military.
(d) Abolition of the Jim Crow laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Katherine Goble Johnson's husband die from?

2. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?

3. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?

4. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?

5. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson warned not to ask for a transfer to an engineering group when she started working at Langley?

2. Why did Melvin Butler fail to inform the engineering staff that James Williams was black?

3. How did the disbanding of West Area Computing affect Dorothy Vaughan?

4. Why was the U.S. Army called to a school in Little Rock, Arkansas?

5. Why was there confusion about which room to place Katherine Goble Johnson's mother in when she was in the hospital?

6. What happened that allowed Katherine Goble Johnson the opportunity to publish her first research report?

7. Why did Katherine Goble Johnson eat at her desk when she worked in the Flight Research Division?

8. What was one major change that occurred when NACA became NASA?

9. Why did Mary Jackson think it was important for her son to participate in the soap box derby?

10. Why did Katherine and Jimmy Goble have to stay with relatives when they attended Jimmy's sister's wedding?

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