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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 separate place for them to work.
(b) Added security.
(c) Approval from the white employees.
(d) A cafeteria for black employees only.

2. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?
(a) The Nuremberg trial.
(b) The Rosenberg trial.
(c) Roe v. Wade.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

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

4. What did Dorothy Vaughan do in the summer of 1944 to make her situation more permanent?
(a) Became a member of the church she had been attending.
(b) Signed a contract with Langley.
(c) Divorced her husband.
(d) Signed a lease on a house.

5. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?
(a) Sponsored a course in engineering physics.
(b) Paid for computers to go back to college.
(c) Paired them up with engineers who acted as mentors.
(d) Required them to take classes at the local college.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dorothy Vaughan sometimes put dinner on the table for her children and then walk around the block before eating?

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

3. What effect did V-J day have on the workforce in the area surrounding Langley?

4. What position did the hotel Katherine worked at while in high school move her to to take advantage of her charisma?

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

(see the answer key)

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