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Part A

Which statement is a main idea of “Dorothy Vaughn Biography”?


She helps write a manual about how machines do math.

Dorothy deserves credit as a pioneer for her accomplishments at NASA.

She was a high school educator before joining NACA.

Dorothy works equally with white and African-American women throughout her career.
Question 2
Part B

Which quotation from the text best supports the answer to Part A?


“…Vaughan was both a respected mathematician and NASA's first African-American manager.”

“Dorothy Vaughan was assigned to the segregated West Area Computing unit, an all-black group of female mathematicians."

“…she collaborated with other well-known (white) computers...on projects such as compiling a handbook for algebraic methods for calculating machines.”

“Vaughan came to the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1943...leaving her position as the math teacher…”