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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. In what year was East Computing disbanded?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1943.

2. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?
(a) Research on air turbulence.
(b) Research on space flight.
(c) Research on the control of fighter planes.
(d) Research on slotted wind tunnel walls.

3. Who were the Greensboro Four?
(a) Black leaders who helped integrate schools.
(b) Students who sat at a segregated lunch counter.
(c) Engineers who designed the Mercury capsule.
(d) Four women in West Computing who were all from Greensboro.

4. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
(a) They worried that their white classmates would be angry if the black students got better grades.
(b) They worried that they would be forced to move to where they could go to white schools.
(c) They worried they would not be able to compete with white students.
(d) They worried that their school would be closed.

5. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?
(a) Houston.
(b) California.
(c) Kennedy Space Center.
(d) Langley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did James Williams have to do on his first day of work at Langley?

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

4. How did Dorothy Lee feel after agreeing with a report that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?

5. How did the engineers in Flight Research and PARD learn about space flight?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did black families handle the closing of schools in Prince Edward due to defunding by segregationists?

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

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

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

5. What did Americans fear when Russia launched Sputnik?

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

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

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

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

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

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