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

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

3. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?
(a) She had to walk there.
(b) Her supervisor had to give her permission to attend an engineering class.
(c) The classes were not open to women.
(d) The school was segregated.

4. Where did Mary Jackson work immediately after her first year of teaching.
(a) At Olde Hampton's Bethel AME Church.
(b) At the Hampton Institute.
(c) At Langley Research Center.
(d) At the USO.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1960s how many hours per day did Katherine Goble Johnson typically work?

2. Why did Dorothy Vaughan believe the West Computers would need to learn to use the electronic computers?

3. Where did Mary Jackson attend college?

4. How old was Katherine Goble Johnson at the time of the first manned moon flight?

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

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