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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?
(a) She became a computer programmer.
(b) She became the head of the division.
(c) She went back to teaching school.
(d) She became an engineer.

2. Who was branch chief that offered James Williams a place on his team?
(a) Kaz.
(b) R.T. Jones.
(c) John Becker.
(d) Jaybird.

3. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson unable to go to the editorial meetings?
(a) Because she was not an engineer.
(b) Because she was female.
(c) Because she was black.
(d) Because they did not pertain to her work.

4. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?
(a) An IBM computer.
(b) A Bell calculator.
(c) An abacus.
(d) An Apple computer.

5. Why did Langley employees hold meetings and social gatherings in their own Activities Building in the 1950s?
(a) Because it was the nicest building in the area.
(b) So they could avoid trying to find a public building that would allow a racially mixed group.
(c) Because they did not want people outside the laboratory to hear what they talked about.
(d) Because it was the only building in the area large enough to accommodate them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?

2. What were the employees at Langley warned against doing outside of the workplace during World War II?

3. What song did Mary Jackson tell her Girl Scouts that they would never sing again after she thought about the stereotypes the song promoted?

4. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?

5. What was Christine Mann Darden's job when she was in high school?

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