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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many women, both black and white, were working as computers when Dorothy Vaughan started at Langley?
(a) 100.
(b) 500+.
(c) 200+.
(d) 20.

2. Who was the head computer when Langley began hiring black women?
(a) Blanche Sponsler.
(b) Mary Jackson.
(c) Dorothy Vaughan.
(d) Virginia Tucker.

3. What were the segregation laws called?
(a) Jim Crow laws.
(b) Colored Workers laws.
(c) Racial Separation laws.
(d) Uncle Tom laws.

4. What was the name of the senator from Virginia who vehemently opposed the Fair Employment Practices Committee?
(a) Thomas Byrdsong.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Melvin Butler.
(d) Harry Byrd.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did the hotel Katherine worked at while in high school move her to to take advantage of her charisma?

2. How old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?

3. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?

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

5. What was the name of Langley Research Center's newsletter?

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