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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Katherine's analysis of an accident involving a small plane lead to?
(a) A change in the design of small airplanes.
(b) A change in pilot procedures for landing an airplane.
(c) Changes in air traffic regulations to avoid wake turbulence accidents.
(d) Changes to the wing structure of airplanes.

2. In what year did the first female computing pool begin working at Langley?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1971.

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

4. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?
(a) She had made a simple math error.
(b) There was an error made in the research phase.
(c) The equation she was asked to use was incorrect.
(d) He had given her the wrong numbers to use for the calculations.

5. How had Katherine Goble Johnson's father taught her to treat other people?
(a) As equals.
(b) As strangers to be wary of.
(c) As inferior to herself.
(d) As superiors to herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?

2. What did the U.S. government do to prevent black leaders like Josephine Baker and W.E.B. Du Bois from having an impact on relations with newly independent countries?

3. Where did Mary Jackson attend college?

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

5. Who hid the "colored computers" sign from the cafeteria?

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