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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. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?
(a) The equation she was asked to use was incorrect.
(b) He had given her the wrong numbers to use for the calculations.
(c) There was an error made in the research phase.
(d) She had made a simple math error.

2. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?
(a) An abacus.
(b) A Bell calculator.
(c) An Apple computer.
(d) An IBM computer.

3. 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 made a calculation error.
(d) She asked them where the bathroom was.

4. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?
(a) Desegregation of schools.
(b) Affirmative action.
(c) Abolition of the Jim Crow laws.
(d) Desegregation of the military.

5. What did James Williams have to do on his first day of work at Langley?
(a) Deal with a mechanic who sabotaged his work.
(b) Convince the guards at the gate that he was an engineer.
(c) Take a test to prove he had the necessary skills to work there.
(d) Prove that he had an engineering degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the reporter who interviewed Dorothy Lee say that women had to work like?

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

3. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?

4. Where did Katherine Goble Johnson meet her second husband?

5. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 was Katherine Goble Johnson prohibited from attending the editorial meetings?

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

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

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