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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 was the name of the first satellite the Russian's put into orbit?
(a) Sputnik.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Red One.

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

3. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?
(a) Langley.
(b) Kennedy Space Center.
(c) California.
(d) Houston.

4. Besides fearing an attack, what bothered Americans about Russia launching Sputnik?
(a) Americans were humiliated that Russia had beat them to space.
(b) Americans were only weeks away from launching a manned spacecraft.
(c) Americans believed Russia was using the satellite to monitor their communications.
(d) Americans believed Russia had stolen plans for its satellite from America.

5. Where did Katherine Goble Johnson meet her second husband?
(a) At a basketball game.
(b) At Langley.
(c) At a church choir practice.
(d) At a school board meeting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

2. What did Shetterly say was one of Katherine Goble Johnson's "great talents?"

3. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?

4. Why was it a challenge for black boys to enter into the All-American Soap Box Derby?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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