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

2. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?
(a) The ability to coddle the women under her.
(b) The ability to shrug off discriminatory remarks made by the East Computers.
(c) The ability to match temperaments with groups.
(d) The ability to circumvent the management system.

3. What did Executive Order 10925, signed by President Kennedy, call for?
(a) Desegregation of the military.
(b) Affirmative action.
(c) Desegregation of schools.
(d) Abolition of the Jim Crow laws.

4. What was special for the Vaughans and Manns about vacationing at Log Cabin Beach?
(a) Miriam and Dorothy could talk openly about their work.
(b) There were no "colored" signs.
(c) It was the only place they were able to socialize with one another.
(d) Blacks and whites vacationed together there without segregation laws.

5. What notable member of the U.S. Navy visited Langley shortly before Dorothy Vaughan arrived?
(a) Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.
(b) Chief Frank Knox.
(c) U.S. General Frank Knox.
(d) Captain Frank Knox.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did school boards in the community around Langley do to keep black students from attending white schools after schools were integrated?

2. What important research had the men in The Flight Research Division presented just weeks before Katherine Goble Johnson was sent to work there?

3. At the time when black women began working at Langley, what was considered the highest level of employment a black woman could achieve?

4. Why did Langley employees hold meetings and social gatherings in their own Activities Building in the 1950s?

5. What were the segregation laws called?

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