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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Tuskegee Airmen.
(b) The Black Panthers.
(c) The Negro Air Patrol.
(d) The African American Airmen.

2. What effect did V-J day have on the workforce in the area surrounding Langley?
(a) Employers began paying their employees less.
(b) Many workers were laid off.
(c) There was a need to hire additional workers.
(d) Employers began paying their employees more.

3. 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?
(a) Revoked their passports.
(b) Charged them with heavy fines.
(c) Denounced them in the press.
(d) Put them in jail.

4. How did Leonard Vaughan and the other black children ensure they would get the pond to themselves?
(a) Intimidate the white children.
(b) Wait for the white children to leave.
(c) Put a fake "colored only" sign on the shore.
(d) Get their first.

5. What were the employees at Langley warned against doing outside of the workplace during World War II?
(a) Socializing with people of different races.
(b) Letting anyone know where they worked.
(c) Talking about their work.
(d) Telling people there were black women working at Langley.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?

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

3. Which of the following planes was used in the bombing of Japan?

4. Where did Mary Jackson work immediately after her first year of teaching.

5. What did James Thompson call the idea that black Americans had to fight in the war for victory overseas and at home for victory over oppression?

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