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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time when black women began working at Langley, what was considered the highest level of employment a black woman could achieve?
(a) School teacher.
(b) Maid.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Mathematician.

2. What was Shetterly's father's job at Langley?
(a) He was a custodian.
(b) He was an engineer.
(c) He was a climate scientist.
(d) He was a mathematician.

3. What oath did Dorothy Vaughan have to take upon beginning her job at Langley?
(a) The Mathematician's oath.
(b) The NACA Loyalty oath.
(c) The Segregated Workplace oath.
(d) The U.S. Civil Service oath.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?

2. How much was Dorothy Vaughan offered in pay to work at Langley in comparison to her teaching job?

3. What event made Dorothy Vaughan decide that going to graduate school would be economically irresponsible?

4. How did Shetterly know the woman that her father told her was a human computer, thus sparking her interest in the topic?

5. What did James Thompson call the idea that black Americans had to fight in the war for victory overseas and at home for victory over oppression?

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