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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 the first human in space?
(a) Yuri Gagarin.
(b) Alan Shepard.
(c) Neil Armstrong.
(d) John Glenn.

2. How old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

3. How did Dorothy Lee feel after agreeing with a report that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?
(a) Confused.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Embarrassed.

4. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?
(a) To get married.
(b) For a better job in another laboratory.
(c) Because she could not advance to an engineering position at NACA.
(d) To pursue a master's degree in mathematics.

5. What percentage of the world's population did NACA's chief legal counsel say was "colored" in a memo written in 1956?
(a) 75%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 46%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?

2. Who was the division chief of The Flight Research Division when Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?

3. What was Kaz's response when Mary told him about being laughed at by the white computers?

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. How long were schools in Prince Edward closed due to defunding to avoid segregation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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