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

2. Why did Mary Jackson return home after her first year as a teacher?
(a) Because she did not like teaching.
(b) To pursue a graduate degree.
(c) To care for her ill father.
(d) She had been fired for expecting too much from her students.

3. How did Dorothy Vaughan get from her hometown to her new job at Langley?
(a) She walked.
(b) She took a Greyhound bus.
(c) She drove her car.
(d) Her husband drove her.

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

5. What nickname did Hampton, Virginia give itself in 1962?
(a) Astronaut Academy, USA.
(b) Moon Landing II.
(c) Spacetown, USA.
(d) NASA Town.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Mary Jackson attend college?

3. What did the "X" in the designation of an airplane signify?

4. What was Howard Vaughan's job?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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