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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did Dorothy Vaughan sometimes put dinner on the table for her children and then walk around the block before eating?
2. What was Dorothy Vaughan's summer job before she began working at Langley?
3. How much did Dorothy Vaughan pay for her housing when she first started working at Langley?
4. Who was the head computer when Langley began hiring black women?
5. Why did Mary Jackson return home after her first year as a teacher?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the white professors and students treat Katherine Goble Johnson when she was one of three students chosen to integrate West Virginia University?
2. Why were employees of NACA warned not to speak of their work outside the office during World War II?
3. Why did Howard Vaughan refuse to move from Farmville to live with his family in Newport News?
4. Why was Dorothy Vaughan taking a risk when she decided to sign a lease on a house in Newport News?
5. What did Mary Winston Jackson try to teach the girls in the Girl Scouts troop that she lead?
6. Why were Howard and Dorothy Vaughan an uneven match for one another?
7. How did the Jim Crow laws make public transportation difficult for both blacks and whites in Newport News?
8. How did the Depression affect black teachers like Dorothy Vaughan?
9. Why was it necessary for Melvin Butler to begin hiring black women as computers?
10. Why did Joshua Coleman rent a house for his wife and children that was 125 miles away from their home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay describing and discussing the objections civil rights leaders had to the space program. What problems did they see with the space program? How did the space program relate to racial inequalities?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay comparing advances in aeronautics to advances in the civil rights movement. How do the two interconnect? Do the two advance at the same rate? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Mary Jackson’s humanitarian work outside of Langley informed the direction of her career. Write an essay describing the work that Mary did outside and inside of Langley and how the two were interconnected. Why did Mary make the move to Human Resources and how did her humanitarian work influence the work she did in that department?
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