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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 position did the hotel Katherine worked at while in high school move her to to take advantage of her charisma?
(a) Maid.
(b) Bellhop.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Store clerk.

2. What was Dorothy Vaughan's summer job before she began working at Langley?
(a) She did laundry at Camp Pickett.
(b) She was a waitress.
(c) She worked at the USO.
(d) She was a bookkeeper for a hotel.

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

4. How did Katherine Goble Johnson return to teaching in 1944?
(a) Her sister got pregnant, so Katherine took over for her.
(b) Her children's teacher quit and she applied for the job.
(c) Her husband became ill and the school offered her his contract.
(d) She had lost her job at Langley.

5. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?
(a) Divorced her husband.
(b) Signed a lease on a house.
(c) Signed a contract with Langley.
(d) Became a member of the church she had been attending.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the head computer when Langley began hiring black women?

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

3. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?

4. Who was West Computing's section head when Dorothy Vaughan first came to Langley?

5. How many more children did Dorothy and Howard Vaughan have after Dorothy moved to Newport News?

(see the answer key)

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