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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when Katherine Goble Johnson sat down at a desk in the Flight Research Division on her first day there?
(a) She was mistaken for Dorothy Vaughan.
(b) The white man next to her got up and walked away.
(c) She was given work meant for one of the engineers.
(d) She was told to move.

2. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
(a) They worried that they would be forced to move to where they could go to white schools.
(b) They worried they would not be able to compete with white students.
(c) They worried that their white classmates would be angry if the black students got better grades.
(d) They worried that their school would be closed.

3. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?
(a) The ability to circumvent the management system.
(b) The ability to shrug off discriminatory remarks made by the East Computers.
(c) The ability to match temperaments with groups.
(d) The ability to coddle the women under her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event caused the need for Langley to initially hire black women?

2. Where did Christine Mann Darden attend college?

3. What did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?

4. How old was Christine Mann Darden when she started the second grade?

5. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?

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