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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 position was Dorothy Vaughan promoted to under Margery Hannah?
(a) Mathematician.
(b) Head computer.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Shift supervisor.

2. What event made Dorothy Vaughan decide that going to graduate school would be economically irresponsible?
(a) The Depression.
(b) Her father's death.
(c) Her first pregnancy.
(d) World War II.

3. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?
(a) To go easy on her grieving daughters.
(b) To avoid talking about her husband's death.
(c) To allow Dorothy Vaughan to pick the children up from school.
(d) Not to give her daughters any special treatment.

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?
(a) No More My Lawd.
(b) Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
(c) Pick a Bale of Cotton.
(d) Early in the Mornin'.

5. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighborhood near Langley did Dorothy Vaughan eventually permanently settle in?

2. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?

3. Where was the secret bunker for politicians to be evacuated to in the event of a Russian attack?

4. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?

5. At the time when black women began working at Langley, what was considered the highest level of employment a black woman could achieve?

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