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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 event caused the need for Langley to initially hire black women?
(a) The space race.
(b) World War I.
(c) The launch of Sputnik.
(d) World War II.

2. What was Dorothy Vaughan's summer job before she began working at Langley?
(a) She did laundry at Camp Pickett.
(b) She was a waitress.
(c) She worked at the USO.
(d) She was a bookkeeper for a hotel.

3. What state was Katherine Goble Johnson from?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Virginia.

4. 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) Charged them with heavy fines.
(b) Put them in jail.
(c) Revoked their passports.
(d) Denounced them in the press.

5. 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) The personnel department at Langley kept a file of available housing separated by races.
(c) She stayed with people she met at church.
(d) She found an ad in the paper for "colored housing."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mary Jackson work immediately after her first year of teaching.

2. What was Howard Vaughan's job?

3. Who was West Computing's section head when Dorothy Vaughan first came to Langley?

4. What were the segregation laws called?

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?

(see the answer key)

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