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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 was Dorothy Vaughan's summer job before she began working at Langley?
(a) She did laundry at Camp Pickett.
(b) She was a waitress.
(c) She worked at the USO.
(d) She was a bookkeeper for a hotel.

2. Why was it difficult for Mary Jackson to attend engineering classes at Hampton High School?
(a) The school was segregated.
(b) She had to walk there.
(c) Her supervisor had to give her permission to attend an engineering class.
(d) The classes were not open to women.

3. At what age did Dorothy Vaughan graduate from high school?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

4. Who was the singer that Dorothy Vaughan took her children to see at Ogden Hall?
(a) Billie Holiday.
(b) Lena Horne.
(c) Ellah Fitzgerald.
(d) Marian Anderson.

5. Where was Katherine Goble Johnson when she found out about the jobs available at Langley for black women?
(a) At a wedding.
(b) In a bus station.
(c) At church.
(d) At the laundromat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Mary Jackson hold in the Human Resources Division?

2. How did Dorothy Vaughan reinvent her career after the Analysis and Computation Division was created?

3. Where did NASA move the space program to in anticipation of the large number of people needed to accomplish the manned orbital flight?

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

5. What did James Thompson call the idea that black Americans had to fight in the war for victory overseas and at home for victory over oppression?

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