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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 Christine Mann Darden's job when she was in high school?
(a) She worked in a laundromat.
(b) She worked as maid in a hotel.
(c) She worked in an antiques store at a hotel.
(d) She worked in a library.

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

3. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?
(a) They paid "school fees" to the families.
(b) They did not allow black students to participate in extracurricular activities.
(c) They offered scholarships to black students who graduated from black schools.
(d) They placed black students in lower level classes than white students.

4. How long were schools in Prince Edward closed due to defunding to avoid segregation?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) One year.
(d) Five years.

5. 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 discuss the way Katherine Goble Johnson had been treated by the male engineers.
(c) To recommend that he hire Mary Jackson.
(d) To request a raise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Mary Jackson's son who entered into the soap box derby race?

2. What was the name of the first satellite the Russian's put into orbit?

3. How did Katherine Goble Johnson gain access to the editorial meetings?

4. What does NASA stand for?

5. What part of the Mercury Project did Katherine Goble Johnson request to work on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Americans fear when Russia launched Sputnik?

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

4. Why did NASA move the space program to Houston?

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

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

7. Why did Dorothy Lee regret agreeing with a reporter when she said that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?

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

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

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

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