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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 was special for the Vaughans and Manns about vacationing at Log Cabin Beach?
(a) There were no "colored" signs.
(b) Blacks and whites vacationed together there without segregation laws.
(c) Miriam and Dorothy could talk openly about their work.
(d) It was the only place they were able to socialize with one another.

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

3. What song did Mary Jackson tell her Girl Scouts that they would never sing again after she thought about the stereotypes the song promoted?
(a) Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
(b) No More My Lawd.
(c) Early in the Mornin'.
(d) Pick a Bale of Cotton.

4. Why did the NAACP file a lawsuit against Booker T. Washington High School in Virginia?
(a) They were not offering black students the same opportunities as white students.
(b) They were not allowing black students to attend classes there.
(c) They would not hire black teachers.
(d) They were paying black teachers less than white teachers.

5. What was the name of the personnel officer at Langley Research Center when Dorothy Vaughan began working there?
(a) Asa Phillip Randolph.
(b) Thomas Byrdsong.
(c) Melvin Butler.
(d) John Glenn.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Katherine Goble Johnson return to teaching in 1944?

2. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?

3. What did black newspapers call the black soldiers who fought overseas during World War II?

4. How old was Katherine Goble Johnson when she entered college?

5. Who was the singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?

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