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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the professor that mentored Katherine Goble Johnson while she was in college?
(a) John Henrik Clarke.
(b) Asa Phillips Randolph.
(c) William Claytor.
(d) W.E.B. DuBois.

2. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?
(a) The classes were not open to women.
(b) Her supervisor had to give her permission to attend an engineering class.
(c) The school was segregated.
(d) She had to walk there.

3. What did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?
(a) Unmanned aircrafts.
(b) Ground models.
(c) Wind tunnels.
(d) Computer simulations.

4. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?
(a) Space cadets.
(b) Airheads.
(c) NACA nerds.
(d) NACA nuts.

5. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?
(a) The ability to shrug off discriminatory remarks made by the East Computers.
(b) The ability to coddle the women under her.
(c) The ability to match temperaments with groups.
(d) The ability to circumvent the management system.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?

2. Why did Dorothy Vaughan sometimes put dinner on the table for her children and then walk around the block before eating?

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

4. What was the name of the senator from Virginia who vehemently opposed the Fair Employment Practices Committee?

5. In what Langley building did much of the research surrounding spaceflight take place?

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