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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was the secret bunker for politicians to be evacuated to in the event of a Russian attack?
(a) Under the Langley Research Center.
(b) Under the Washington Monument.
(c) Under the Greenbrier hotel.
(d) Under Hampton High School.

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

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

5. 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?
(a) Charged them with heavy fines.
(b) Put them in jail.
(c) Denounced them in the press.
(d) Revoked their passports.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was Dorothy Vaughan offered in pay to work at Langley in comparison to her teaching job?

2. What did the students in Christine Mann Darden's high school worry about when they heard the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

3. What did the researchers at Langley use to gain test results without the dangers of test flights?

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. Which of the following was a skill Dorothy Vaughan had to have to do her job as a supervisor well?

(see the answer key)

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