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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-23, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

2. How did Dorothy Vaughan find a place to stay when she arrived in Newport News?
(a) She found an ad in the paper for "colored housing."
(b) The personnel department at Langley kept a file of available housing separated by races.
(c) A friend gave her the name of a woman who owned a boarding house.
(d) She stayed with people she met at church.

3. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?
(a) Not to give her daughters any special treatment.
(b) To avoid talking about her husband's death.
(c) To go easy on her grieving daughters.
(d) To allow Dorothy Vaughan to pick the children up from school.

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

5. What rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?
(a) That the astronauts were contributing to the students' organizing for social change.
(b) That the astronauts were going to join the lunch counter sit ins.
(c) That there would be a black man on the first space flight.
(d) That they were racist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?

2. Why did Langley employees hold meetings and social gatherings in their own Activities Building in the 1950s?

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

4. Where did Katherine Goble Johnson meet her second husband?

5. Who appeared in the brochure produced by the U.S. Department of Labor to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation?

(see the answer key)

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