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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 Katherine Goble Johnson consider her greatest contribution to the space program?
(a) Her work as a computer in West Computing.
(b) Her work on the lunar rendezvous.
(c) Her work in the Human Resources department.
(d) Her work on the Mercury project trajectory.

2. What neighborhood near Langley did Dorothy Vaughan eventually permanently settle in?
(a) Copeland Park.
(b) Aberdeen Gardens.
(c) Stuart Gardens.
(d) Newsome Park.

3. What event caused the need for Langley to initially hire black women?
(a) The launch of Sputnik.
(b) World War I.
(c) The space race.
(d) World War II.

4. What did the local living around Langley Research Center call the people who worked at Langley because of their eccentric behavior?
(a) NACA nerds.
(b) Airheads.
(c) Space cadets.
(d) NACA nuts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?

2. How had Katherine Goble Johnson's father taught her to treat other people?

3. What rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?

4. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?

5. How did Margery Hannah treat the black computers?

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