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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 the secret bunker for politicians to be evacuated to in the event of a Russian attack?
(a) Under the Washington Monument.
(b) Under Hampton High School.
(c) Under the Greenbrier hotel.
(d) Under the Langley Research Center.

2. What position was Dorothy Lee subbing in when she impressed the branch chief with her math skills and earned her permanent position in his branch?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Bookkeeper.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Computer.

3. What was the name of America's first manned space project?
(a) Project Mercury.
(b) Challenger.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Project Scout.

4. What was the name of Mary Jackson's son who entered into the soap box derby race?
(a) William.
(b) Levi.
(c) Leonard.
(d) Arthur.

5. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?
(a) They overworked her.
(b) She was never able to be herself around them.
(c) They treated her as though she were beneath them.
(d) She was comfortable with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?

2. What was special about Mary Jackson's son winning the soap box derby?

3. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?

4. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?

5. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Dorothy Lee regret agreeing with a reporter when she said that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?

2. Why did NASA move the space program to Houston?

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

4. What made the theoretical group an especially good place for women to work?

5. Why was there a push toward space for Americans after Russia launched Sputnik?

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

7. Why did the East Computing girls laugh at Mary Jackson when she asked them where the bathroom was?

8. How did the governor of Virginia respond to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling and what was the result?

9. Why did the talk that Mary Jackson and Emma Jean gave to a group of girls have such a great impact on the girls?

10. What did Americans fear when Russia launched Sputnik?

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