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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 rumor about the astronauts spread around the Hampton Institute campus?
(a) That the astronauts were going to join the lunch counter sit ins.
(b) That they were racist.
(c) That there would be a black man on the first space flight.
(d) That the astronauts were contributing to the students' organizing for social change.

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

3. What did Langley's Analysis and Computation Division do?
(a) Introduced male computers to Langley.
(b) Integrated black and white female computers into one group.
(c) Separated the black women computers from their engineering groups.
(d) Caused the human computers at Langley to lose their jobs.

4. What event made Dorothy Vaughan decide that going to graduate school would be economically irresponsible?
(a) Her first pregnancy.
(b) World War II.
(c) Her father's death.
(d) The Depression.

5. What percentage of the world's population did NACA's chief legal counsel say was "colored" in a memo written in 1956?
(a) 46%.
(b) 55%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 80%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dorothy Hoover leave NACA?

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

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

4. Who did Dorothy Vaughan think the notice she saw on a bulletin board looking for mathematicians was meant for?

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

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