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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 Greenbrier hotel.
(b) Under Hampton High School.
(c) Under the Washington Monument.
(d) Under the Langley Research Center.

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

3. Who was the first human in space?
(a) Yuri Gagarin.
(b) Neil Armstrong.
(c) Alan Shepard.
(d) John Glenn.

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

5. How old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Seven.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the Greensboro Four?

2. What did Katherine's analysis of an accident involving a small plane lead to?

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

4. What was Christine Mann Darden's job when she was in high school?

5. What did Langley's Analysis and Computation Division do?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was Mary Jackson's reaction the first time she walked into Hampton High School to take engineering classes?

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

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