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

2. What percentage of the world's population did NACA's chief legal counsel say was "colored" in a memo written in 1956?
(a) 55%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 46%.
(d) 80%.

3. Where was the secret bunker for politicians to be evacuated to in the event of a Russian attack?
(a) Under Hampton High School.
(b) Under the Greenbrier hotel.
(c) Under the Langley Research Center.
(d) Under the Washington Monument.

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

5. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Virginia State University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Hampton Institute.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did NACA become NASA?

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

3. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?

4. What country were Americans concerned about their students being able to compete with?

5. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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