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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?
(a) Divorced her husband.
(b) Signed a lease on a house.
(c) Signed a contract with Langley.
(d) Became a member of the church she had been attending.

2. What was Howard Vaughan's job?
(a) He was an itinerant bellman.
(b) He was a custodian at the high school.
(c) He worked in a shipyard.
(d) He was a teacher.

3. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?
(a) Christine Darden's family.
(b) Mary Jackson's family.
(c) Miriam Mann's family.
(d) Margery Hannah's family.

4. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Roe v. Wade.
(c) The Rosenberg trial.
(d) The Nuremberg trial.

5. At what age did Dorothy Vaughan graduate from high school?
(a) 16.
(b) 17.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Katherine Goble Johnson's first husband?

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

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

4. Where did Mary Jackson attend college?

5. Where did Dorothy Vaughan and her husband live after marrying?

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