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- 1. Multiple Choice
What are the names of the three women?
Dorothy
All of the above
Mary
Katherine
- 2. Multiple Choice
What operations did engineers at Langley Memorial Laboratory
wind tunnels
wind operators
wind simulator
wind
- 3. Multiple Choice
What were "computers"
black women
women who made computations of raw data
an electronic device
- 4. Multiple Choice
Even though job recruiters weren't supposed to consider a person's race when hiring, what gave it away?
The picture of the resume
The university they went to
By looking at the person
The way they speaked
- 5. Multiple Choice
During the 1940s, women were able to get jobs for the first time in many industries. What event caused that to happen?
Because World War II was happening and most of the men were at war.
Because they thought men were lazy.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who placed the 1940s ads
Langley Memorial Areonatical Laboraty
National Adversory Committee for Aeronautics
Engineers
job recruiter
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which is the best description of the author’s organizational structure?
She first describes the job of a computer and then other jobs available at Langley.
She uses chronological order to discuss key events between 1935 and 1945.
She begins the narrative in the present day and traces key events back to 1945.
She skips around in time to explain key events and provide historical background.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Jim Crow laws are
the blacks laws
racism
the law that separated whites and blacks
segregation
- 9. Multiple Choice
The “WANTED: Female Mathematicians” section of the text helps readers predict that —
the lab will continue to include women in its workforce
after the war ends the need for computers will end and the women will be fired
segregation of white and black employees will continue despite changes in society
black female computers will dominate the field of computing for several decades
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which detail from the selection best reveals how important the mission President Roosevelt gave the NACA was?
African Americans were assigned to work in a separate area from white people.
Women were classified as “subprofessionals.”
African Americans were hired for positions typically only held by white people.
Women had been working at Langley since 1937.
- 11. Fill in the Blank
Do you think NASA was a socially progressive organization in 1961? Why or why not?
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