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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when Katherine Goble Johnson sat down at a desk in the Flight Research Division on her first day there?
(a) She was given work meant for one of the engineers.
(b) She was told to move.
(c) The white man next to her got up and walked away.
(d) She was mistaken for Dorothy Vaughan.

2. What was Kaz's response when Mary told him about being laughed at by the white computers?
(a) He invited her to come and work for him.
(b) He laughed at her.
(c) He reprimanded the white computers.
(d) He told her that if she did not like being laughed at, she should work somewhere else.

3. 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.

4. What event made Dorothy Vaughan decide that going to graduate school would be economically irresponsible?
(a) Her first pregnancy.
(b) World War II.
(c) Her father's death.
(d) The Depression.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Shetterly's father's job at Langley?

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

3. How many students were killed in the bus crash at Moton High School?

4. How many freedoms did President Roosevelt say that all men were entitled to in his 1941 State of the Union address?

5. How did Dorothy Vaughan find a place to stay when she arrived in Newport News?

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