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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. What did the personnel officer know would be necessary if he were to hire black women to work at Langley?
(a) Added security.
(b) A separate place for them to work.
(c) Approval from the white employees.
(d) A cafeteria for black employees only.

2. What were the segregation laws called?
(a) Uncle Tom laws.
(b) Racial Separation laws.
(c) Colored Workers laws.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

3. Where did Jimmy Goble work when he and Katherine moved to Newsome Park?
(a) The shipyard.
(b) At a restaurant.
(c) At a high school.
(d) Langley Research Center.

4. What did Langley's Analysis and Computation Division do?
(a) Separated the black women computers from their engineering groups.
(b) Introduced male computers to Langley.
(c) Integrated black and white female computers into one group.
(d) Caused the human computers at Langley to lose their jobs.

5. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did members in the black community who supported the space program dislike about the program?

4. Who was Matilda West, the black employee who was fired for disloyalty, related to?

5. Why was it a challenge for black boys to enter into the All-American Soap Box Derby?

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