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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 event did Katherine Goble Johnson and Eunice Smith take off work for every year?
(a) Katherine's birthday.
(b) Their sorority's leadership meeting.
(c) The CIAA basketball tournament.
(d) Their church's fall banquet.

2. Who spoke about having a dream at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
(a) Katherine Goble Johnson.
(b) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Asa Phillip Randolph.

3. Which Executive Order desegregated the military?
(a) Executive Order 8802.
(b) Executive Order 11246.
(c) Executive Order 9066.
(d) Executive Order 13160.

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

5. Who was West Computing's section head when Dorothy Vaughan first came to Langley?
(a) Virginia Tucker.
(b) Margery Hannah.
(c) Blanche Sponsler.
(d) Miriam Mann.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Dorothy Vaughan graduate from high school?

2. How did Mary Jackson see her son's opportunity to build a soap box derby car?

3. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?

4. What did Katherine Goble Johnson's husband die from?

5. Who was the first human in space?

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