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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. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?
(a) Mary Jackson's work.
(b) Katherine Goble Johnson's work.
(c) Thomas Byrdsong's work.
(d) Kaz Czarnecki's work.

2. What part of the Mercury Project was the team that Dorothy Lee worked on responsible for?
(a) The rockets.
(b) The design of the spacecraft.
(c) The orbital path.
(d) The trajectory of the flight.

3. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?
(a) To clarify Katherine Goble Johnson's position as a member of West Computing or as a permanent member of Flight Research.
(b) To recommend that he hire Mary Jackson.
(c) To discuss the way Katherine Goble Johnson had been treated by the male engineers.
(d) To request a raise.

4. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) The Rosenberg Trial.
(d) Roe v. Wade.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the secret bunker for politicians to be evacuated to in the event of a Russian attack?

2. How did Mary Jackson see her son's opportunity to build a soap box derby car?

3. Why did Langley employees hold meetings and social gatherings in their own Activities Building in the 1950s?

4. Why was there sometimes confusion over Katherine Goble Johnson's race?

5. What branch of the military did Katherine Goble Johnson's second husband serve in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Katherine Goble Johnson decide not to let the engineer who walked away from her when she sat at a desk bother her?

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

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

9. What did Americans fear when Russia launched Sputnik?

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

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