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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Shetterly know the woman that her father told her was a human computer, thus sparking her interest in the topic?
(a) The woman was her former Sunday School teacher.
(b) The woman was her former babysitter.
(c) The woman was her kindergarten teacher.
(d) The woman was her mother's best friend.

3. What were the segregation laws called?
(a) Colored Workers laws.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Racial Separation laws.
(d) Uncle Tom laws.

4. Where did Mary Jackson work immediately after her first year of teaching.
(a) At the Hampton Institute.
(b) At Olde Hampton's Bethel AME Church.
(c) At the USO.
(d) At Langley Research Center.

5. Where did Dorothy Vaughan and her husband live after marrying?
(a) Farmville.
(b) Hampton.
(c) Newport News.
(d) Little Rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighborhood near Langley did Dorothy Vaughan eventually permanently settle in?

2. What song did Mary Jackson tell her Girl Scouts that they would never sing again after she thought about the stereotypes the song promoted?

3. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?

4. How many women, both black and white, were working as computers when Dorothy Vaughan started at Langley?

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

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