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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. What was the name of the personnel officer at Langley Research Center when Dorothy Vaughan began working there?
(a) John Glenn.
(b) Thomas Byrdsong.
(c) Melvin Butler.
(d) Asa Phillip Randolph.

2. How did Margery Hannah treat the black computers?
(a) She went out of her way to be extra nice to them.
(b) She ignored them.
(c) As equals.
(d) As inferiors.

3. How did Dorothy Vaughan find a place to stay when she arrived in Newport News?
(a) A friend gave her the name of a woman who owned a boarding house.
(b) She found an ad in the paper for "colored housing."
(c) She stayed with people she met at church.
(d) The personnel department at Langley kept a file of available housing separated by races.

4. What did the personnel officer know would be necessary if he were to hire black women to work at Langley?
(a) Added security.
(b) A separate place for them to work.
(c) Approval from the white employees.
(d) A cafeteria for black employees only.

5. What event made Dorothy Vaughan decide that going to graduate school would be economically irresponsible?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Depression.
(c) Her first pregnancy.
(d) Her father's death.

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. What was the name of Langley Research Center's newsletter?

3. How were black people expected to enter a bus due to segregation laws?

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 was Asa Phillip Randolph's position when he threatened to lead a march on Washington if war jobs were not opened to blacks?

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