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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 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.

2. How did Dorothy Vaughan get from her hometown to her new job at Langley?
(a) She drove her car.
(b) She walked.
(c) She took a Greyhound bus.
(d) Her husband drove her.

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

4. Who did Dorothy Vaughan think the notice she saw on a bulletin board looking for mathematicians was meant for?
(a) The white students at the nearby college.
(b) Men only.
(c) The upper class women who worked at the college.
(d) White men only.

5. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?
(a) Space cadets.
(b) Airheads.
(c) NACA nerds.
(d) NACA nuts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Katherine Goble Johnson when she entered college?

2. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?

3. What effect did V-J day have on the workforce in the area surrounding Langley?

4. What was the name of the group of black pilots whose exploits were closely followed by the black community during World War II?

5. What neighborhood near Langley did Dorothy Vaughan eventually permanently settle in?

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