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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 did Shetterly know the woman that her father told her was a human computer, thus sparking her interest in the topic?
(a) The woman was her mother's best friend.
(b) The woman was her former Sunday School teacher.
(c) The woman was her kindergarten teacher.
(d) The woman was her former babysitter.

2. What was the original name of NASA?
(a) NAPA.
(b) NACA.
(c) NAACP.
(d) NASP.

3. 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 their white classmates would be angry if the black students got better grades.
(c) They worried that their school would be closed.
(d) They worried that they would be forced to move to where they could go to white schools.

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

5. Where was Central High School, the white school that was in the news because black students were trying to integrate it?
(a) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(b) Miami, Florida.
(c) Austin, Texas.
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dorothy Vaughan and her husband live after marrying?

2. What was the name of Langley Research Center's newsletter?

3. What happened when Katherine Goble Johnson sat down at a desk in the Flight Research Division on her first day there?

4. Who did Dorothy Vaughan think the notice she saw on a bulletin board looking for mathematicians was meant for?

5. Why did Mary Jackson return home after her first year as a teacher?

(see the answer key)

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