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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. Who was branch chief that offered James Williams a place on his team?
(a) Kaz.
(b) Jaybird.
(c) R.T. Jones.
(d) John Becker.

2. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?
(a) To request a raise.
(b) To recommend that he hire Mary Jackson.
(c) To discuss the way Katherine Goble Johnson had been treated by the male engineers.
(d) To clarify Katherine Goble Johnson's position as a member of West Computing or as a permanent member of Flight Research.

3. What branch of the military did Katherine Goble Johnson's second husband serve in?
(a) Airforce.
(b) Navy.
(c) Marines.
(d) Army.

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

5. What was the name of Mary Jackson's son who entered into the soap box derby race?
(a) William.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Levi.
(d) Leonard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jimmy Goble work when he and Katherine moved to Newsome Park?

2. Where was Katherine Goble Johnson when she found out about the jobs available at Langley for black women?

3. What was the name of America's first manned space project?

4. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?

5. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Americans fear when Russia launched Sputnik?

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

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

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

7. What was one major change that occurred when NACA became NASA?

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

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

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

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