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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following planes was used in the bombing of Japan?
(a) Douglas C-47 Skytrain.
(b) Chance Vaught F4U Corsair.
(c) North American P-51 Mustang.
(d) Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

2. What was the name of the group of black pilots whose exploits were closely followed by the black community during World War II?
(a) The Negro Air Patrol.
(b) The Tuskegee Airmen.
(c) The Black Panthers.
(d) The African American Airmen.

3. What was Asa Phillip Randolph's position when he threatened to lead a march on Washington if war jobs were not opened to blacks?
(a) Senator.
(b) Head of NAACP.
(c) Congressman.
(d) Head of the largest black labor union.

4. Who was the singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?
(a) Lena Horne.
(b) Billie Holiday.
(c) Marian Anderson.
(d) Ellah Fitzgerald.

5. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?
(a) R.T. Jones.
(b) Melvin Butler.
(c) Thomas Byrdsong.
(d) Harry Byrd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What oath did Dorothy Vaughan have to take upon beginning her job at Langley?

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

3. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?

4. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?

5. What did Shetterly say was one of Katherine Goble Johnson's "great talents?"

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