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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 did Katherine Goble Johnson's husband die from?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) A brain tumor.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Malaria.

2. How did Mary Jackson see her son's opportunity to build a soap box derby car?
(a) As a way of boosting his self-esteem.
(b) As a waste of time.
(c) As a way to show that he could do anything white children could do.
(d) As an apprenticeship in engineering.

3. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?
(a) The equation she was asked to use was incorrect.
(b) She had made a simple math error.
(c) There was an error made in the research phase.
(d) He had given her the wrong numbers to use for the calculations.

4. What was the first machine used at Langley to perform computations?
(a) A Bell calculator.
(b) An abacus.
(c) An Apple computer.
(d) An IBM computer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Mary Jackson return home after her first year as a teacher?

2. What instruction did Katherine Goble Johnson give her daughters' principal after her husband died?

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

4. What effect did V-J day have on the workforce in the area surrounding Langley?

5. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?

(see the answer key)

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