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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. How did the engineers in Flight Research and PARD learn about space flight?
(a) They attended courses at Hampton Institute.
(b) They used information the CIA had stolen from Russia.
(c) They brought in lead scientists from around the world.
(d) They started a self-education lecture series.

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) Computer.
(b) Bookkeeper.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Engineer.

3. What branch of the military did Katherine Goble Johnson's second husband serve in?
(a) Navy.
(b) Airforce.
(c) Marines.
(d) Army.

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

5. What country were Americans concerned about their students being able to compete with?
(a) China.
(b) Germany.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson unable to go to the editorial meetings?

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

3. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?

4. How had Katherine Goble Johnson's father taught her to treat other people?

5. Where did Katherine Goble Johnson meet her second husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did black families handle the closing of schools in Prince Edward due to defunding by segregationists?

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

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

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

5. In the 1950s, what made Dorothy Vaughan believe that the nature of the computers' jobs would be changing?

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

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

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

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

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

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