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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?
(a) Ellah Fitzgerald.
(b) Billie Holiday.
(c) Marian Anderson.
(d) Lena Horne.

2. What did black newspapers call the black soldiers who fought overseas during World War II?
(a) Black Yanks.
(b) Tan Soldiers.
(c) Black Battalions.
(d) Tan Yanks.

3. In what year did the first female computing pool begin working at Langley?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1943.

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

5. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?
(a) Miriam Mann's family.
(b) Christine Darden's family.
(c) Margery Hannah's family.
(d) Mary Jackson's family.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did the NAACP file a lawsuit against Booker T. Washington High School in Virginia?

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

5. What was Shetterly's father's job at Langley?

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