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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 was Dorothy Vaughan's connection to Katherine Goble Johnson before working at Langley?
(a) Dorothy and Katherine went to the same church.
(b) Dorothy and her husband were friends with Katherine's grandparents.
(c) Dorothy went to college with Katherine.
(d) Dorothy was Katherine's teacher in high school.

2. Who coauthored Mary Jackson's first report?
(a) R.T. Jones.
(b) Kaz Czarnecki.
(c) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(d) Dorothy Vaughan.

3. What was the name of the spacecraft that took the first men to the moon?
(a) Apollo 13.
(b) Mercury 7.
(c) Apollo 1
(d) Apollo 11.

4. Who was Matilda West, the black employee who was fired for disloyalty, related to?
(a) Miriam Mann.
(b) Mary Jackson.
(c) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(d) Dorothy Vaughan.

5. What does NASA stand for?
(a) Newport Aeronautical and Science Administration.
(b) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(c) New Airplane Science Administration.
(d) National Aero Space Alliance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?

2. How far off from its targeted landing spot was the landing of the Mercury capsule?

3. In 1970, what percentage of engineers in America were black?

4. Who was West Computing's section head when Dorothy Vaughan first came to Langley?

5. In the early 1960s how many black women at Langley were engineers?

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