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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. What was the purpose of the document titled "Introduction to Outer Space" that was prepared by President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Science?

2. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?

3. Who was the first human in space?

4. What did the reporter who interviewed Dorothy Lee say that women had to work like?

5. What happened when Katherine Goble Johnson sat down at a desk in the Flight Research Division on her first day there?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Mary Jackson's reaction the first time she walked into Hampton High School to take engineering classes?

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

6. Why did Melvin Butler fail to inform the engineering staff that James Williams was black?

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

8. What made the theoretical group an especially good place for women to work?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Shetterly writes about how the area surrounding Langley Research Center affected those working at Langley. Write an essay describing the area and the way it impacted lives of African Americans living and working in the area. What was the area like? What housing was available to African Americans? How did being located in a segregated area affect Langley Research Center?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing the impact of the Rosenberg trial on employees at Langley. Why was Langley drawn into the trial? How did the trial affect interactions between employees? What was the impact on racial relations within Langley?

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