Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a complete version of this text. Part A

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

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

2: She was a high school educator before joining NACA.

3: Dorothy works equally with white and African-American women throughout her career.

4: She helps write a manual about how machines do math.

Part B

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

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

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

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

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