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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 Executive Order desegregated the military?
(a) Executive Order 8802.
(b) Executive Order 13160.
(c) Executive Order 9066.
(d) Executive Order 11246.

2. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) The Rosenberg trial.
(c) The Nuremberg trial.
(d) Roe v. Wade.

3. What was the original name of NASA?
(a) NAPA.
(b) NAACP.
(c) NASP.
(d) NACA.

4. Who did Dorothy Vaughan think the notice she saw on a bulletin board looking for mathematicians was meant for?
(a) White men only.
(b) The white students at the nearby college.
(c) Men only.
(d) The upper class women who worked at the college.

5. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?
(a) They overworked her.
(b) She was never able to be herself around them.
(c) They treated her as though she were beneath them.
(d) She was comfortable with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coauthored Mary Jackson's first report?

2. In what year did the first female computing pool begin working at Langley?

3. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?

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

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

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