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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dorothy Lee feel after agreeing with a report that women had to act like ladies in the workplace?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Confused.
(c) Happy.
(d) Angry.

2. Why did Dorothy Vaughan believe the West Computers would need to learn to use the electronic computers?
(a) Their male coworkers would not learn to use the electronic computers.
(b) Their male coworkers would think they were not capable if they did not learn to use them.
(c) The electronic computers would eventually replace them, so they would need to be able to use them to keep their jobs.
(d) The East Computers would take their jobs if they did not learn to use them.

3. What did Langley do in hopes of turning the computers into junior engineers?
(a) Paired them up with engineers who acted as mentors.
(b) Sponsored a course in engineering physics.
(c) Required them to take classes at the local college.
(d) Paid for computers to go back to college.

4. In what year was East Computing disbanded?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1953.

5. What trial was Langley drawn into because of a suspected connection to one of the employees there?
(a) The Rosenberg trial.
(b) Brown v. Board of Education.
(c) The Nuremberg trial.
(d) Roe v. Wade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following planes was used in the bombing of Japan?

2. How many women, both black and white, were working as computers when Dorothy Vaughan started at Langley?

3. Who was the professor that mentored Katherine Goble Johnson while she was in college?

4. What did the reporter who interviewed Dorothy Lee say that women had to work like?

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

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