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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 innovation was added to the wind tunnels to make them more closely simulate flight conditions?

2. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?

3. Who was the first human in space?

4. In what year was East Computing disbanded?

5. How had Katherine Goble Johnson's father taught her to treat other people?

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

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

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

5. What happened that allowed Katherine Goble Johnson the opportunity to publish her first research report?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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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