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Item 1
Question 1
Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a complete version of this text.

Part A

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


Dorothy makes a difference by speaking up for fair salaries and opportunities for women who work at NACA.

Although she enjoys her work with NACA, Dorothy hopes to one day return to teaching math to children.

Because of her abilities, engineers choose to work only with Dorothy instead of other NACA mathematicians.

Dorothy is most known for being the only woman at NACA to write instruction manuals for using machinery.
Question 2
Part B

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


“Engineers valued her recommendations as to the best "girls" for a particular project, and for challenging assignments they often requested that she personally handle the work.”

“…leaving her position as the math teacher at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, VA to take what she believed would be a temporary war job.”

“Vaughan was a steadfast advocate for the women of West Computing, and even intervened on behalf of white computers in other groups who deserved promotions or pay raises.”

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