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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 song did Mary Jackson tell her Girl Scouts that they would never sing again after she thought about the stereotypes the song promoted?
(a) Pick a Bale of Cotton.
(b) No More My Lawd.
(c) Early in the Mornin'.
(d) Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

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

3. What effect did V-J day have on the workforce in the area surrounding Langley?
(a) Employers began paying their employees more.
(b) There was a need to hire additional workers.
(c) Many workers were laid off.
(d) Employers began paying their employees less.

4. Why did the NAACP file a lawsuit against Booker T. Washington High School in Virginia?
(a) They were not offering black students the same opportunities as white students.
(b) They were not allowing black students to attend classes there.
(c) They would not hire black teachers.
(d) They were paying black teachers less than white teachers.

5. What event caused the need for Langley to initially hire black women?
(a) The space race.
(b) World War I.
(c) World War II.
(d) The launch of Sputnik.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Langley Research Center's newsletter?

2. Where did Jimmy Goble work when he and Katherine moved to Newsome Park?

3. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?

4. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?

5. Why did Dorothy Vaughan believe the West Computers would need to learn to use the electronic computers?

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