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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 an engineer.
(c) She went back to teaching school.
(d) She became the head of the division.

2. Who coauthored Mary Jackson's first report?
(a) R.T. Jones.
(b) Kaz Czarnecki.
(c) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(d) Dorothy Vaughan.

3. What position was Dorothy Lee subbing in when she impressed the branch chief with her math skills and earned her permanent position in his branch?
(a) Bookkeeper.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Computer.
(d) Engineer.

4. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?
(a) Miami, Florida.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(d) Austin, Texas.

5. What was Kaz's response when Mary told him about being laughed at by the white computers?
(a) He invited her to come and work for him.
(b) He laughed at her.
(c) He told her that if she did not like being laughed at, she should work somewhere else.
(d) He reprimanded the white computers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?

3. Where did Mary Jackson work immediately after her first year of teaching.

4. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?

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

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