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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) Store clerk.
(b) Bellhop.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Maid.

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

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

4. What oath did Dorothy Vaughan have to take upon beginning her job at Langley?
(a) The Segregated Workplace oath.
(b) The NACA Loyalty oath.
(c) The U.S. Civil Service oath.
(d) The Mathematician's oath.

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?
(a) The Black Man's Battle.
(b) The Double V.
(c) The Constant Battle.
(d) The Double War.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were black people expected to enter a bus due to segregation laws?

2. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?

3. Where did Mary Jackson attend college?

4. Why did Dorothy Vaughan sometimes put dinner on the table for her children and then walk around the block before eating?

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

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