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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 made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?
(a) She asked them where the bathroom was.
(b) She was not allowed to sit with them in the cafeteria.
(c) She did not know how to use a calculator.
(d) She made a calculation error.

2. In what year was East Computing disbanded?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1961.

3. What happened when Katherine Goble Johnson sat down at a desk in the Flight Research Division on her first day there?
(a) She was mistaken for Dorothy Vaughan.
(b) She was told to move.
(c) The white man next to her got up and walked away.
(d) She was given work meant for one of the engineers.

4. How did President Eisenhower want America's first spaceflight to be perceived?
(a) As a secretive mission.
(b) As a peaceful mission.
(c) As a show of America's superior technology.
(d) As an act of military strength.

5. What innovation was added to the wind tunnels to make them more closely simulate flight conditions?
(a) Slotted walls.
(b) A sloped floor.
(c) A solid ceiling.
(d) Sloped walls.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Dorothy Vaughan believe the West Computers would need to learn to use the electronic computers?

3. How long were schools in Prince Edward closed due to defunding to avoid segregation?

4. What was the name of the white woman who went with Mary Jackson to speak to a group of black female students about science and engineering careers?

5. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?

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

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

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

5. What happened at Moton High School that drew them into the Brown v. Board of Education case?

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

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

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

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

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

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