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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had Katherine Goble Johnson's father taught her to treat other people?
(a) As equals.
(b) As superiors to herself.
(c) As inferior to herself.
(d) As strangers to be wary of.

2. Whose work was sabotaged by a mechanic?
(a) Thomas Byrdsong's work.
(b) Katherine Goble Johnson's work.
(c) Mary Jackson's work.
(d) Kaz Czarnecki's work.

3. How many women, both black and white, were working as computers when Dorothy Vaughan started at Langley?
(a) 100.
(b) 500+.
(c) 20.
(d) 200+.

4. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?
(a) Rightful Resistance.
(b) School Safety.
(c) White Power.
(d) Massive Resistance.

5. What did black newspapers call the black soldiers who fought overseas during World War II?
(a) Tan Soldiers.
(b) Black Yanks.
(c) Black Battalions.
(d) Tan Yanks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the division chief of The Flight Research Division when Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?

3. What event made Dorothy Vaughan decide that going to graduate school would be economically irresponsible?

4. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?

5. How much was Dorothy Vaughan offered in pay to work at Langley in comparison to her teaching job?

(see the answer key)

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