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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. Who was West Computing's section head when Dorothy Vaughan first came to Langley?
2. What was Dorothy Vaughan's summer job before she began working at Langley?
3. What did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?
4. What nickname did Hampton, Virginia give itself in 1962?
5. Where did Mary Jackson attend college?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Shetterly's childhood affect the way she thought of blacks working in science, math, and engineering?
2. What did some supervisors at Langley do to encourage talented female computers to remain on the job?
3. What was the attitude of the male engineers when a human computer made an error?
4. How did the white professors and students treat Katherine Goble Johnson when she was one of three students chosen to integrate West Virginia University?
5. How did the Depression affect black teachers like Dorothy Vaughan?
6. What observation did black leaders make concerning the events occurring in Europe during World War II?
7. What was the goal of NACA during World War II?
8. Why did Dorothy Vaughan work in the laundry at Camp Pickett in the summers?
9. Why was Dorothy Vaughan taking a risk when she decided to sign a lease on a house in Newport News?
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 discussing Shetterly’s motive for writing Hidden Figures. What does she hope to accomplish with this book? How does she want the world to see the black women who worked as human computers? What is the overall message of the book?
Essay Topic 2
Shetterly writes about the way that segregation affected black students both positively and negatively. Write an essay discussing the way segregation both helped and hindered black students. What were the negative effects? What were the positive effects?
Essay Topic 3
Shetterly writes that black Americans often put limitations on themselves. What does Shetterly mean by this? What limitations did black Americans place on themselves? What was the cause? How did some of the characters in Hidden Figures fight against this self-limitation?
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