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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Mary Jackson work immediately after her first year of teaching.
(a) At Langley Research Center.
(b) At the USO.
(c) At Olde Hampton's Bethel AME Church.
(d) At the Hampton Institute.

2. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?
(a) Research on space flight.
(b) Research on air turbulence.
(c) Research on the control of fighter planes.
(d) Research on slotted wind tunnel walls.

3. How many more children did Dorothy and Howard Vaughan have after Dorothy moved to Newport News?
(a) Zero.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

4. How were black people expected to enter a bus due to segregation laws?
(a) Through the back door of the bus.
(b) By getting permission from the bus driver before entering.
(c) Through the front door of the bus.
(d) They had to wait for all white passengers to enter first.

5. Where was the secret bunker for politicians to be evacuated to in the event of a Russian attack?
(a) Under the Washington Monument.
(b) Under Hampton High School.
(c) Under the Greenbrier hotel.
(d) Under the Langley Research Center.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Senator Byrd's movement against integration?

2. What was Dorothy Vaughan's summer job before she began working at Langley?

3. Why did Mary Jackson's calculations come up wrong when she was given an assignment by the chief of the Compressibility Division?

4. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?

5. What position was Dorothy Lee subbing in when she impressed the branch chief with her math skills and earned her permanent position in his branch?

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