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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Shetterly's father's job at Langley?
(a) He was a mathematician.
(b) He was an engineer.
(c) He was a custodian.
(d) He was a climate scientist.

2. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?
(a) To clarify Katherine Goble Johnson's position as a member of West Computing or as a permanent member of Flight Research.
(b) To recommend that he hire Mary Jackson.
(c) To discuss the way Katherine Goble Johnson had been treated by the male engineers.
(d) To request a raise.

3. Who was the division chief of The Flight Research Division when Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?
(a) James William.
(b) Henry Pearson.
(c) John Becker.
(d) R. T. Jones.

4. What notable member of the U.S. Navy visited Langley shortly before Dorothy Vaughan arrived?
(a) Chief Frank Knox.
(b) Captain Frank Knox.
(c) U.S. General Frank Knox.
(d) Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.

5. At the time when black women began working at Langley, what was considered the highest level of employment a black woman could achieve?
(a) Maid.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Mathematician.
(d) School teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?

2. What did the U.S. government do to prevent black leaders like Josephine Baker and W.E.B. Du Bois from having an impact on relations with newly independent countries?

3. What did Katherine's analysis of an accident involving a small plane lead to?

4. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?

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

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