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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 neighborhood near Langley did Dorothy Vaughan eventually permanently settle in?
(a) Copeland Park.
(b) Newsome Park.
(c) Stuart Gardens.
(d) Aberdeen Gardens.

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

3. Besides fearing an attack, what bothered Americans about Russia launching Sputnik?
(a) Americans were only weeks away from launching a manned spacecraft.
(b) Americans were humiliated that Russia had beat them to space.
(c) Americans believed Russia was using the satellite to monitor their communications.
(d) Americans believed Russia had stolen plans for its satellite from America.

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

5. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
(a) They worried they would not be able to compete with white students.
(b) They worried that they would be forced to move to where they could go to white schools.
(c) They worried that their white classmates would be angry if the black students got better grades.
(d) They worried that their school would be closed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose family attended a concert with Dorothy Vaughan's family?

2. What did the U.S. government do to prevent black leaders like Josephine Baker and W.E.B. Du Bois from having an impact on relations with newly independent countries?

3. Why did Dorothy Vaughan go to speak with the division chief of The Flight Research Division?

4. How did Katherine Goble Johnson gain access to the editorial meetings?

5. Why did Dorothy Vaughan sometimes put dinner on the table for her children and then walk around the block before eating?

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