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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 effect did V-J day have on the workforce in the area surrounding Langley?
(a) Employers began paying their employees more.
(b) Employers began paying their employees less.
(c) There was a need to hire additional workers.
(d) Many workers were laid off.

2. What did the U.S. government do to prevent black leaders like Josephine Baker and W.E.B. Du Bois from having an impact on relations with newly independent countries?
(a) Put them in jail.
(b) Revoked their passports.
(c) Denounced them in the press.
(d) Charged them with heavy fines.

3. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

4. Who did Dorothy Vaughan think the notice she saw on a bulletin board looking for mathematicians was meant for?
(a) The upper class women who worked at the college.
(b) The white students at the nearby college.
(c) White men only.
(d) Men only.

5. How much was Dorothy Vaughan offered in pay to work at Langley in comparison to her teaching job?
(a) Twice as much.
(b) Ten cents more per hour.
(c) The same amount.
(d) 50 percent more per hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?

2. What was Howard Vaughan's job?

3. What did the personnel officer know would be necessary if he were to hire black women to work at Langley?

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

5. Who hid the "colored computers" sign from the cafeteria?

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