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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 did Shetterly say was one of Katherine Goble Johnson's "great talents?"
(a) Her charm.
(b) Her ability to make friends with anyone.
(c) Her ability to grasp ideas quickly.
(d) Being in the right place at the right time.

2. How had Katherine Goble Johnson's father taught her to treat other people?
(a) As superiors to herself.
(b) As strangers to be wary of.
(c) As inferior to herself.
(d) As equals.

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

4. Which group at Langley had already developed expertise in rockets when the space race began?
(a) PARD.
(b) The Flight Research Division.
(c) The Formal Methods Research Group.
(d) The Materials Research Division.

5. What did Katherine's analysis of an accident involving a small plane lead to?
(a) Changes in air traffic regulations to avoid wake turbulence accidents.
(b) A change in pilot procedures for landing an airplane.
(c) Changes to the wing structure of airplanes.
(d) A change in the design of small airplanes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?

4. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?

5. How many students were killed in the bus crash at Moton High School?

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

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

4. What did Americans fear when Russia launched Sputnik?

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

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

8. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson prohibited from attending the editorial meetings?

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

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

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