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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 did Katherine Goble Johnson's husband die from?

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

3. Who was the first human in space?

4. How did the engineers in Flight Research and PARD learn about space flight?

5. Where did Katherine Goble Johnson meet her second husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the 1950s, what made Dorothy Vaughan believe that the nature of the computers' jobs would be changing?

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

5. Why did NASA move the space program to Houston?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining the concept of the “Double V.” What did African American leaders mean by this term? In what ways were African American soldiers particularly affected by the Double V? How did the Double V affect African Americans working at Langley?

Essay Topic 2

Women working at Langley were subjected to gender stereotypes that influenced the way that the men they worked with treated them. Write an essay discussing the gender stereotypes that were in play at the time and how those stereotypes affected the women who worked at Langley. How did their male coworkers feel about the work the women did? How did the stereotypes affect women’s possibilities for advancing in their careers?

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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