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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-23, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the employees at Langley warned against doing outside of the workplace during World War II?
(a) Talking about their work.
(b) Telling people there were black women working at Langley.
(c) Letting anyone know where they worked.
(d) Socializing with people of different races.

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

3. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?
(a) She went back to teaching school.
(b) She became an engineer.
(c) She became the head of the division.
(d) She became a computer programmer.

4. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?
(a) Paid for computers to go back to college.
(b) Sponsored a course in engineering physics.
(c) Required them to take classes at the local college.
(d) Paired them up with engineers who acted as mentors.

5. Who was branch chief that offered James Williams a place on his team?
(a) Kaz.
(b) Jaybird.
(c) R.T. Jones.
(d) John Becker.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1960s how many black women at Langley were engineers?

2. What part of the Mercury Project was the team that Dorothy Lee worked on responsible for?

3. How had Katherine Goble Johnson's father taught her to treat other people?

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

5. Who was cheered by the black community following the Mercury mission?

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