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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Katherine Goble Johnson unable to go to the editorial meetings?
(a) Because she was black.
(b) Because they did not pertain to her work.
(c) Because she was female.
(d) Because she was not an engineer.

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

3. What effect did V-J day have on the workforce in the area surrounding Langley?
(a) There was a need to hire additional workers.
(b) Employers began paying their employees less.
(c) Many workers were laid off.
(d) Employers began paying their employees more.

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

5. What event caused the need for Langley to initially hire black women?
(a) The launch of Sputnik.
(b) The space race.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were black people expected to enter a bus due to segregation laws?

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

4. What song did Mary Jackson tell her Girl Scouts that they would never sing again after she thought about the stereotypes the song promoted?

5. Who was the man that was promoted to head the Stability Analysis section despite the fact that he had not finished college?

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