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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 instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?
(a) Not to give her daughters any special treatment.
(b) To avoid talking about her husband's death.
(c) To allow Dorothy Vaughan to pick the children up from school.
(d) To go easy on her grieving daughters.

2. How old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Seven.
(d) Ten.

3. What was the name of the personnel officer at Langley Research Center when Dorothy Vaughan began working there?
(a) Melvin Butler.
(b) John Glenn.
(c) Thomas Byrdsong.
(d) Asa Phillip Randolph.

4. What nickname did Hampton, Virginia give itself in 1962?
(a) Spacetown, USA.
(b) Moon Landing II.
(c) NASA Town.
(d) Astronaut Academy, USA.

5. What did the "X" in the designation of an airplane signify?
(a) That it was a bomber.
(b) That it was a cargo plane.
(c) That it was a fighter plane.
(d) That it was experimental.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Asa Phillip Randolph's position when he threatened to lead a march on Washington if war jobs were not opened to blacks?

2. How did Shetterly know the woman that her father told her was a human computer, thus sparking her interest in the topic?

3. What did the personnel officer know would be necessary if he were to hire black women to work at Langley?

4. How did Margery Hannah treat the black computers?

5. Who was the professor that mentored Katherine Goble Johnson while she was in college?

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