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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 was the name of Langley Research Center's newsletter?
(a) The Flyer.
(b) Air Scoop.
(c) NACA Notes.
(d) Research Reporter.

2. How did Katherine Goble Johnson return to teaching in 1944?
(a) Her sister got pregnant, so Katherine took over for her.
(b) Her children's teacher quit and she applied for the job.
(c) She had lost her job at Langley.
(d) Her husband became ill and the school offered her his contract.

3. What Supreme Court announcement did Katherine Goble Johnson discuss with her male coworkers?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) The Rosenberg Trial.
(d) Roe v. Wade.

4. Who was the professor that mentored Katherine Goble Johnson while she was in college?
(a) Asa Phillips Randolph.
(b) John Henrik Clarke.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) William Claytor.

5. What were the segregation laws called?
(a) Colored Workers laws.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Uncle Tom laws.
(d) Racial Separation laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Margery Hannah treat the black computers?

2. Who did Dorothy Vaughan think the notice she saw on a bulletin board looking for mathematicians was meant for?

3. What made white computers laugh at Mary Jackson?

4. What did James Williams have to do on his first day of work at Langley?

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

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