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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 Langley's Analysis and Computation Division do?
(a) Integrated black and white female computers into one group.
(b) Introduced male computers to Langley.
(c) Separated the black women computers from their engineering groups.
(d) Caused the human computers at Langley to lose their jobs.

2. What part of the Mercury Project did Katherine Goble Johnson request to work on?
(a) The landing sequence of the spacecraft.
(b) The design of the spacecraft.
(c) The trajectory of the orbital flight.
(d) The formula for the rocket fuel.

3. In what Langley building did much of the research surrounding spaceflight take place?
(a) Building 51.
(b) Building 1244.
(c) The Activities Building.
(d) The Space Research Building.

4. What did the reporter who interviewed Dorothy Lee say that women had to work like?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Mules.
(c) Men.
(d) Slaves.

5. Why did Dorothy Vaughan believe the West Computers would need to learn to use the electronic computers?
(a) Their male coworkers would not learn to use the electronic computers.
(b) The East Computers would take their jobs if they did not learn to use them.
(c) The electronic computers would eventually replace them, so they would need to be able to use them to keep their jobs.
(d) Their male coworkers would think they were not capable if they did not learn to use them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

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

3. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?

4. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?

5. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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