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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Katherine Goble Johnson's relationship with her white male coworkers like?
(a) They overworked her.
(b) They treated her as though she were beneath them.
(c) She was never able to be herself around them.
(d) She was comfortable with them.

2. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?
(a) To request a raise.
(b) To recommend that he hire Mary Jackson.
(c) To discuss the way Katherine Goble Johnson had been treated by the male engineers.
(d) To clarify Katherine Goble Johnson's position as a member of West Computing or as a permanent member of Flight Research.

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

4. What oath did Dorothy Vaughan have to take upon beginning her job at Langley?
(a) The Mathematician's oath.
(b) The NACA Loyalty oath.
(c) The Segregated Workplace oath.
(d) The U.S. Civil Service oath.

5. How did Leonard Vaughan and the other black children ensure they would get the pond to themselves?
(a) Put a fake "colored only" sign on the shore.
(b) Intimidate the white children.
(c) Wait for the white children to leave.
(d) Get their first.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did President Eisenhower want America's first spaceflight to be perceived?

2. How much did Dorothy Vaughan pay for her housing when she first started working at Langley?

3. What did the reporter who interviewed Dorothy Lee say that women had to work like?

4. How many more children did Dorothy and Howard Vaughan have after Dorothy moved to Newport News?

5. What did black newspapers call the black soldiers who fought overseas during World War II?

(see the answer key)

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